Lead-induced impairments in the neural processes related to working memory function

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Seo, Jeehye ^a   Lee, Byung Kook ^b   Jin, Seong Uk ^a   Park, Jang Woo ^a   Kim, Yang Tae ^c   Ryeom, Hun Kyu ^d   Lee, Jongmin ^d   Suh, Kyung Jin ^e   Kim, Suk Hwan ^f   Park, Sin Jae ^f   Jeong, Kyoung Sook ^e   Ham, Jung O ^g   Kim, Yangho ^f   Chang, Yongmin ^a,d  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b Korean Industrial Health Association ^*  (South Korea)

^c Keimyung University   (South Korea)

^d Kyungpook National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e Dongguk University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^g Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Soonchunhyan University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LEAD POISONING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; AGED; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES;

EID: 84925866047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105308     Document Type: Article

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