The functional tumor necrosis factor-α (308A/G) polymorphism modulates attentional selection in elderly individuals

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2694.e1-2694.e12

  Gajewski, Patrick D ^a   Hengstler, Jan G ^a   Golka, Klaus ^a   Falkenstein, Michael ^a   Beste, Christian ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Event related potential; Genetic imaging; Time frequency decomposition; TNF polymorphism; Visual attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGED; ALLELE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; AGING; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; VERY ELDERLY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL; GENETIC IMAGING; TIME-FREQUENCY DECOMPOSITION; TNF-Α POLYMORPHISM; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL SEARCH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

AGING; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL; GENETIC IMAGING; TIME-FREQUENCY DECOMPOSITION; TNF-Α POLYMORPHISM; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL SEARCH;

EID: 84881554869     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2013.04.017     Document Type: Article

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