Dietary supplementation of creatine monohydrate reduces the human fMRI BOLD signal

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 479, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 201-205

  Hammett, Stephen T ^a   Wall, Matthew B ^a   Edwards, Thomas C ^a   Smith, Andrew T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creatine; FMRI BOLD; Memory; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; PLACEBO; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; VASCULARIZATION;

CREATINE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77954145402     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.05.054     Document Type: Article

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