Impaired information processing speed and attention allocation in multiple sclerosis patients versus controls: A high-density EEG study

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 293, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 45-50

  Whelan, R ^a,b   Lonergan, R ^a   Kiiski, H ^b   Nolan, H ^b   Kinsella, K ^a   Hutchinson, M ^a   Tubridy, N ^a   Reilly, R B ^b  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Event related potentials, auditory; Event related potentials, visual; Multiple sclerosis; Neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77952103179     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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