Occipital cortex activation studied with simultaneous recordings of functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound (fTCD) and visual evoked potential (VEP) in cognitively normal human subjects: Effect of healthy aging

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 452, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-22

  Akif Topcuoglu, M ^a   Aydin, Hulya ^b   Saka, Esen ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Eyedness; Neurovascular coupling; Physiological aging; Sighting dominance; Transcranial Doppler; Visual evoked flow response; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 59349110449     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.01.030     Document Type: Article

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