Arousal modulates activity in the medial temporal lobe during a short-term relational memory task

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JANUARY 2012, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Thoresen, Christian ^a   Jensen, Jimmy ^a,b,c   Sigvartsen, Niels Petter B ^b   Bolstad, Ingeborg ^b   Server, Andres ^a   Nakstad, Per H ^a   Andreassen, Ole A ^a,b   Endestad, Tor ^b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Arousal; fMRI; Hippocampus; Relational memory; Serial position effect; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; EMOTION; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 84856785482     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00177     Document Type: Article

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