Between- and within-scanner variability in the CaliBrain study n-back cognitive task

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 86-95

  Gradin, Victoria ^a,b   Gountouna, Viktoria Eleni ^c   Waiter, Gordon ^a   Ahearn, Trevor S ^a   Brennan, David ^d   Condon, Barrie ^d   Marshall, Ian ^c   McGonigle, David J ^e   Murray, Alison D ^a   Whalley, Heather ^c   Cavanagh, Jonathan ^f   Hadley, Donald ^f   Lymer, Katherine ^c   McIntosh, Andrew ^c   Moorhead, Thomas William ^c   Job, Dominic ^c   Wardlaw, Joanna ^c   Lawrie, Stephen M ^c   Steele, John Douglas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multi centre fMRI; Reliability; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 78650227551     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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