Atypical EEG beta asymmetry in adults with ADHD

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3532-3539

  Hale, T Sigi ^a   Smalley, Susan L ^a   Walshaw, Patricia D ^a   Hanada, Grant ^a   Macion, James ^a   McCracken, James T ^a   McGough, James J ^a   Loo, Sandra K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ADHD; Asymmetry; Attention; Beta; CPT; Dyslexia; EEG; Language; Laterality; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; READING; REST; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77957315193     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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