Improving the inhibitory control task to detect minimal hepatic encephalopathy

Gastroenterology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Amodio, Piero ^a   Ridola, Lorenzo ^b   Schiff, Sami ^a,c   Montagnese, Sara ^a   Pasquale, Chiara ^b   Nardelli, Silvia ^b   Pentassuglio, Ilaria ^b   Trezza, Maria ^b   Marzano, Chiara ^b   Flaiban, Cristiana ^a   Angeli, Paolo ^a   Cona, Giorgia ^a   Bisiacchi, Patrizia ^a   Gatta, Angelo ^a   Riggio, Oliviero ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c IRCCS SAN CAMILLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; EEG; Electroencephalogram; Inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; AGE; AGED; ATTENTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVALUATION; HOSPITALIZATION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ITALY; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); ITALY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955502142     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2010.04.057     Document Type: Article

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