Attention cortical responses to enlarged faces are reduced in underweight subjects: An electroencephalographic study

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1348-1359

  Babiloni, Claudio ^a,b   Percio, Claudio Del ^c   Triggiani, Antonio Ivano ^a   Marzano, Nicola ^d   Valenzano, Anna ^a   Petito, Annamaria ^a   Bellomo, Antonello ^a   Soricelli, Andrea ^d,e   Lecce, Brunello ^f   Mundi, Ciro ^f   Limatola, Cristina ^g,h   Cibelli, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b Department of Imaging ^*  (Italy)

^c IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^d IRCCS SDN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^f OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

^g IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^h SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography (EEG); Low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (LORETA); P300; Underweight subjects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; LOW RESOLUTION BRAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNDERWEIGHT;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EATING DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FACE; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; THINNESS; TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957606985     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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