Effects of Aging on Cerebral Oxygenation during Working-Memory Performance: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Vermeij, Anouk ^a,b   van Beek, Arenda H E A ^b   Olde Rikkert, Marcel G M ^b   Claassen, Jurgen A H R ^a,b   Kessels, Roy P C ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TISSUE OXYGENATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 84866981239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046210     Document Type: Article

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