Neural correlates of a standardized version of the trail making test in young and elderly adults: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 271-279

  Müller, Laura D ^a   Guhn, Anne ^a   Zeller, Julia B M ^a   Biehl, Stefanie C ^a,e   Dresler, Thomas ^b,c   Hahn, Tim ^d   Fallgatter, Andreas J ^b,c   Polak, Thomas ^a   Deckert, Jürgen ^a   Herrmann, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Compensation; Near infrared spectroscopy; Prefrontal cortex; Trail making test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; COMPENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HANDEDNESS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

AGING; COMPENSATION; NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TRAIL MAKING TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN H; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TRAIL MAKING TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894257025     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.01.019     Document Type: Article

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