Prefrontal responses to digit span memory phases in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): A functional near infrared spectroscopy study

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages 808-819

  Tian, Fenghua ^a   Yennu, Amarnath ^a   Smith Osborne, Alexa ^b   Gonzalez Lima, F ^c   North, Carol S ^d,e,f   Liu, Hanli ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d VA NORTH TEXAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Digit span; Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS); Hemispheric emotional valence (HEV); Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Topography; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGIT FORWARD TASK; DIGIT SPAN MEMORY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NEAR INFRARED IMAGING SYSTEM; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VETERAN; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY DISORDERS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901022702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.05.005     Document Type: Article

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