Frontal gaba levels change during working memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Michels, Lars ^a,b   Martin, Ernst ^a,c   Klaver, Peter ^a,c   Edden, Richard ^d,e   Zelaya, Fernando ^f   Lythgoe, David ^f   Lüchinger, Rafael ^c   Brandeis, Daniel ^c,g   O'Gorman, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; REST; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; METABOLISM; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84859258729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031933     Document Type: Article

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