Memory impairment exhibited by veterans with Gulf War Illness

Neurocase

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 316-327

  Odegard, Timothy N ^a   Cooper, Crystal M ^a   Farris, Emily A ^a   Arduengo, Josh ^b   Bartlett, James ^b   Haley, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative memory; Covert recall; Feelings of knowing; Gulf War Illness; Hippocampus; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERFORMANCE; VETERAN; WAR;

AGED; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; FEMALE; GULF WAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VETERANS;

EID: 84879066261     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2012.667126     Document Type: Article

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