Gender characteristics of cerebral hemodynamics during complex cognitive functioning

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 123-130

  Misteli, Maria ^a   Duschek, Stefan ^b   Richter, André ^a   Grimm, Simone ^a   Rezk, Markus ^a   Kraehenmann, Rainer ^a   Boeker, Heinz ^a   Seifritz, Erich ^a   Schuepbach, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Cerebral blood flow; Executive function; Fourier transformation; Gender; Transcranial Doppler sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 79955091251     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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