Green tea extract enhances parieto-frontal connectivity during working memory processing

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 231, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 3879-3888

  Schmidt, André ^a,b   Hammann, Felix ^c   Wölnerhanssen, Bettina ^c   Meyer Gerspach, Anne Christin ^c   Drewe, Jürgen ^c   Beglinger, Christoph ^c   Borgwardt, Stefan ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Medical Image Analysis Center (MIAC AG)   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain activity; Cognition; Dynamic causal modeling; Effective connectivity; Green tea extract; Working memory

Indexed keywords

PLANT EXTRACTS; TEA;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG EFFECTS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; METABOLISM; METHODS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; TEA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PLANT EXTRACTS; TEA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896415115     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-014-3526-1     Document Type: Article

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