Increased frontal brain activation during walking while dual tasking: An fNIRS study in healthy young adults

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mirelman, Anat ^a   Maidan, Inbal ^a,b   Bernad Elazari, Hagar ^a   Nieuwhof, Freek ^e,f   Reelick, Miriam ^e   Giladi, Nir ^a,c   Hausdorff, Jeffrey M ^a,c,d  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dual task; fNIRS; Frontal lobe; Gait; Imaging

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DUAL-TASK PERFORMANCE (TEST); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; VERBALIZATION; WALKING; WALKING SPEED; YOUNG ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902545978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17430003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-0003-11-85     Document Type: Article

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