A fMRI Study of Verbal Working Memory, Cardiac Output, and Ejection Fraction in Elderly Patients with Cardiovascular Disease

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 350-357

  Irani, Farzin ^a,b   Sweet, Lawrence H ^a   Haley, Andreana P ^c   Gunstad, John J ^d   Jerskey, Beth A ^a   Mulligan, Richard C ^a   Jefferson, Angela L ^e   Poppas, Athena ^a   Cohen, Ronald A ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac output; Cardiovascular disease; Ejection fraction; FMRI; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Functional neuroimaging; Heart disease; Verbal working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952781997     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-009-9077-0     Document Type: Article

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