PMID- 3945393
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19860305
LR  - 20190514
IS  - 0028-3878 (Print)
IS  - 0028-3878 (Linking)
VI  - 36
IP  - 2
DP  - 1986 Feb
TI  - Electrophysiologic evidence of increased distractibility after dorsolateral 
      prefrontal lesions.
PG  - 212-6
AB  - Patients with left prefrontal lesions and control subjects showed enhanced 
      event-related potentials (ERPs) to attended tone sequences presented in a 
      dichotic attention task. ERP enhancements were comparable at short and long 
      interstimulus intervals (ISIs), and did not depend upon whether attended stimuli 
      were preceded by other attended stimuli or by distracting stimuli in the opposite 
      ear. In contrast, patients with right prefrontal lesions showed absent ERP 
      attention effects to contralateral (left ear) tones at all ISIs, and reduced 
      attention effects to ipsilateral tones at long ISIs and when these were preceded 
      by distracting sounds. The results are consistent with an asymmetric organization 
      of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and indicate that increased distractibility 
      may contribute to the attention disorders that follow prefrontal lesions.
FAU - Woods, D L
AU  - Woods DL
FAU - Knight, R T
AU  - Knight RT
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - United States
TA  - Neurology
JT  - Neurology
JID - 0401060
SB  - IM
MH  - *Attention
MH  - Brain Diseases/*physiopathology
MH  - *Electrophysiology
MH  - *Evoked Potentials, Auditory
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
EDAT- 1986/02/01 00:00
MHDA- 1986/02/01 00:01
CRDT- 1986/02/01 00:00
PHST- 1986/02/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1986/02/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1986/02/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1212/wnl.36.2.212 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Neurology. 1986 Feb;36(2):212-6. doi: 10.1212/wnl.36.2.212.