Neurophysiological evidence of impaired attention and working memory in untreated hematologic cancer patients.

CONCLUSIONS: Prior to initiating treatment, hematologic cancer patients demonstrated poor control over spatial attention and working memory, consistent with altered dorsal attention and central executive network activity. SIGNIFICANCE: Hematologic cancer patients may be at a higher risk for selecting, processing, and storing distracting information that would compete with more immediate goal-related behaviors. PMID: 31163369 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - May 23, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: Anderson DE, Bhatt VR, Schmid K, Holstein SA, Lunning M, Berger AM, Rizzo M Tags: Clin Neurophysiol Source Type: research