Spatial working memory dysfunction in minimal hepatic encephalopathy: An ethology and BOLD-fMRI study

Brain Research

Volumn 1445, Issue , 2012, Pages 62-72

  Liao, Ling Min ^a,b   Zhou, Li Xue ^b   Le, Hong Bo ^a   Yin, Jing Jing ^a   Ma, Shu Hua ^a,c  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c The Chaonan Minsheng Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Ethology; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Minimal hepatic encephalopathy; N back; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; SYMPTOM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84858155318     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.01.036     Document Type: Article

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