Activation of the prefrontal cortex during a visual n-back working memory task with varying memory load: A near infrared spectroscopy study

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4024-4027

  Molteni, Erika ^a   Butt, Michele ^a   Bianchi, Anna M ^a   Reni, Gianluigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; INFRARED DEVICES; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OXYGENATION;

BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN OXYGENATION; COGNITIVE FAILURES; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; METABOLIC PROCESS; OXYGENATED HEMOGLOBIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 61849094294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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