Neural correlates of visuospatial working memory in healthy young adults at risk for hypertension

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 192-199

  Haley, Andreana P ^a   Gunstad, John ^b   Cohen, Ronald A ^c   Jerskey, Beth A ^c   Mulligan, Richard C ^c   Sweet, Lawrence H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Family history; fMRI; Genetic risk; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 67651069508     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-008-9025-4     Document Type: Article

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