Brain Network Activation (BNA) reveals scopolamine-induced impairment of visual working memory

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 59-70

  Reches, Amit ^a   Levy Cooperman, Naama ^b   Laufer, Ilan ^a   Shani Hershkovitch, Revital ^a   Ziv, Keren ^a   Kerem, Dani ^a   Gal, Noga ^a   Stern, Yaki ^a   Cukierman, Guy ^a   Romach, Myroslava K ^c,d   Sellers, Edward M ^c,d   Geva, Amir B ^a,e  

^a ElMindA Ltd   (Israel)

^b SYNEOS HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d DL Global Partners Inc   (Canada)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brain Network Activation (BNA); Cholinergic hypothesis; Dementia; Event related potentials (ERPs); Scopolamine; Working memory (WM)

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PLACEBO; SCOPOLAMINE; SCOPOLAMINE BROMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NETWORK ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECTS; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THETA RHYTHM; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; SCOPOLAMINE HYDROBROMIDE; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84906352540     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: 15591166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12031-014-0250-6     Document Type: Article

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