Evidence for divergent effects of neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease on attentional selection and neural plasticity: implications for excitotoxicity

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1437-1447

  Beste, Christian ^a   Stock, Ann Kathrin ^a   Ness, Vanessa ^b   Hoffmann, Rainer ^c   Saft, Carsten ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; EEG; Excitotoxicity; Huntington s disease; Neural plasticity; Neurodegeneration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; LEARNING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84894533789     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0735-7     Document Type: Article

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