The experience of fatigue in the brain

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 523-524

  De Lange, Floris P ^a,b   Knoop, Hans ^c   Bleijenberg, Gijs ^c   Van Der Meer, Jos W M ^c   Hagoort, Peter ^a   Toni, Ivan ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; LETTER; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; NOTE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; HUMANS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 66149164751     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291708004844     Document Type: Letter

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