Modulatory effects of levodopa on cognitive control in young but not in older subjects: A pharmacological fMRI study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2797-2810

  Onur, Ozgür A ^a,b   Piefke, Martina ^b   Lie, Chuh Hyoun ^a,b   Thiel, Christiane M ^c   Fink, Gereon R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; COGNITION; DOPAMINE AGENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEVODOPA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860393167     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21603     Document Type: Article

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