A role for the macular carotenoids in visual motor response

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 262-268

  Renzi, Lisa M ^a,b   Bovier, Emily R ^a   Hammond Jr , Billy R ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Lutein; Macular pigment; Spatial cognition; Visuomotor function; Zeaxanthin

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; MESOZEAXANTHIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; STANDING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VELOCITY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CAROTENOIDS; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUTEIN; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; POSTURAL BALANCE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; XANTHOPHYLLS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885031936     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1476830513Y.0000000054     Document Type: Article

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