Revealing the functional neuroanatomy of intrinsic alertness using fMRI: Methodological peculiarities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Clemens, Benjamin ^a   Zvyagintsev, Mikhail ^a   Sack, Alexander ^b   Heinecke, Armin ^b   Willmes, Klaus ^a   Sturm, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULA; INTRINSIC ALERTNESS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROANATOMY;

EID: 80053577132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025453     Document Type: Article

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