Traumatic brain injury affects the frontomedian cortex-An event-related fMRI study on evaluative judgments

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 185-193

  Schroeter, Matthias L ^a,b   Ettrich, Barbara ^a   Menz, Mareike ^a,c,d   Zysset, Stefan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffuse axonal injury; Evaluative judgment; fMRI; Social cognition; Theory of mind; Traumatic head injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71849096713     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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