FMRI assessment of thalamocortical connectivity during attentional performance

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1112-1118

  Zhang, Jing ^a   Chu, King Wai ^b   Teague, Ella B ^b   Newmark, Randall E ^b   Buchsbaum, Monte S ^b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional connectivity; Spatial attention; Thalamocortical circuitry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIODORSAL NUCLEUS; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

EID: 84880719105     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2013.01.008     Document Type: Article

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