Adrian M. Owen

Neurobiology of Disease Catechol O-Methyltransferase val 158 met Genotype Influences Frontoparietal Activity during Planning in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease (2008)

Adam Hampshire, Trevor W. Robbins, Adrian M. Owen, Roger A. Barker

Cognitive dysfunction commonly occurs even in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Impairment on frontostriatally based executive tasks is particularly well described but affects only a...

Cognitive Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease: The Role of Frontostriatal Circuitry (2008)

Adrian M. Owen, Adrian M. Owen

It has been known for many years that the classic motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease are accompanied by deficits of executive function that resemble those seen after frontal lobe damage in...

Attentional control in Parkinson's disease is dependent on COMT val158met genotype (2008)

Williams-Gray, Caroline H., Hampshire, Adam, Barker, Roger A., Owen, Adrian M.

Cognitive deficits occur even in the earliest stages of Parkinson's disease. Some such deficits are known to relate to dysfunction in dopaminergic frontostriatal networks, and may be influenced by a...

Do vegetative patients retain aspects of language comprehension? Evidence from fMRI (2007)

Coleman, Martin R., Rodd, Jennifer M., Davis, Matthew H., Johnsrude, Ingrid S., Menon, David K., Pickard, John D., ...

A diagnosis of vegetative state is made if a patient demonstrates no evidence of awareness of self or environment, no evidence of sustained, reproducible, purposeful or voluntary behavioural response...

A Common Prefrontal-Parietal Network for Mnemonic and Mathematical Recoding Strategies within Working Memory (2007)

Bor, Daniel, Owen, Adrian M.

Previous studies have indicated that the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) is closely involved in strategic recoding, even when such processes lessen task demands. For example, 2 studies presented, in...

Fractionating Attentional Control Using Event-Related fMRI (2006)

Hampshire, Adam, Owen, Adrian M.

Despite numerous functional neuroimaging and lesion studies of human executive function, the precise neuroanatomical correlates of specific components of attentional control remain controversial....

Fractionating Attentional Control Using Event-Related fMRI (2006)

Hampshire, Adam, Owen, Adrian M.

Despite numerous functional neuroimaging and lesion studies of human executive function, the precise neuroanatomical correlates of specific components of attentional control remain controversial....

A Common Prefrontal-Parietal Network for Mnemonic and Mathematical Recoding Strategies within Working Memory (2006)

Bor, Daniel, Owen, Adrian M.

Previous studies have indicated that the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) is closely involved in strategic recoding, even when such processes lessen task demands. For example, 2 studies presented, in...

Fractionating Attentional Control Using Event-Related fMRI (2006)

Hampshire, Adam, Owen, Adrian M.

Despite numerous functional neuroimaging and lesion studies of human executive function, the precise neuroanatomical correlates of specific components of attentional control remain controversial....

A Common Prefrontal-Parietal Network for Mnemonic and Mathematical Recoding Strategies within Working Memory (2006)

Bor, Daniel, Owen, Adrian M.

Previous studies have indicated that the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) is closely involved in strategic recoding, even when such processes lessen task demands. For example, 2 studies presented, in...

Dissociable contributions of the human amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex to incentive motivation and goal selection (2003)

Arana, F. Sergio, Parkinson, John A., Hinton, Elanor Clare, Holland, Anthony J., Owen, Adrian M., Roberts, Angela C.

Theories of incentive motivation attempt to capture the way in which objects and events in the world can acquire high motivational value and drive behavior, even in the absence of a clear biological...

Dissociable contributions of the human amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex to incentive motivation and goal selection (2003)

Arana, F. Sergio, Parkinson, John A., Hinton, Elanor Clare, Holland, Anthony J., Owen, Adrian M., Roberts, Angela C.

Theories of incentive motivation attempt to capture the way in which objects and events in the world can acquire high motivational value and drive behavior, even in the absence of a clear biological...

Defining the neural mechanisms of probabilistic reversal learning using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (2002)

Roshan Cools, Luke Clark, Adrian M. Owen, Trevor W. Robbins

Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to measure blood oxygenation level-dependent responses in 13 young healthy human volunteers during performance of a probabilistic...

Dopaminergic modulation of high-level cognition in Parkinson's disease: the role of the prefrontal cortex revealed by PET (2002)

Cools, Roshan, Stefanova, Elka, Barker, Roger A., Robbins, Trevor W., Owen, Adrian M.

This study examined the effects of l‐dopa medication in patients with Parkinson’s disease on cortical and subcortical blood flow changes during two tasks known to involve frontostriatal...

The role of the striatum and hippocampus in planning: A PET activation study in Parkinson's disease (2001)

Dagher, Alain, Owen, Adrian M., Boecker, Henning, Brooks, David J.

Previous work has identified the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and striatum as participating in the planning and selection of movements. We compared the brain activation patterns during planning in...

Maintaining and Shifting Attention within Left or Right Hemifield (2000)

Vandenberghe, Rik, Duncan, John, Arnell, Karen M., Bishop, Sonia J., Herrod, Nicholas J., Owen, Adrian M., ...

Positron emission tomography (PET) was used to examine two questions: (i) which structures of the intact human brain change their activity with the direction of attention to left or right visual...

Mapping the network for planning: a correlational PET activation study with the Tower of London task (1999)

Dagher, Alain, Owen, Adrian M., Boecker, Henning, Brooks, David J.

We used the Tower of London task (TOL) and H215O-PET to map the network of brain structures involved in planning. Six healthy right-handed subjects had 12 measurements of relative regional cerebral...

Double dissociations of memory and executive functions in working memory tasks following frontal lobe excisions, temporal lobe excisions or amygdalo-hippocampectomy in man (1996)

Owen, Adrian M., Morris, Robin G., Sahakian, Barbara J., Polkey, Charles E., Robbins, Trevor W.

Thirty-two neurosurgical patients with unilateral or bilateral frontal lobe excisions, 41 patients with unilateral temporal lobe lesions and 19 patients who had undergone unilateral...

Evidence for a Two-Stage Model of Spatial Working Memory Processing within the Lateral Frontal Cortex: A Positron Emission Tomography Study (1996)

Owen, Adrian M., Evans, Alan C., Petrides, Michael

Previous work in nonhuman primates and in patients with frontal lobe damage has suggested that the frontal cortex plays a critical rolein the performance of both spatial and nonspatial working memory...

Contrasting mechanisms of impaired attentional set-shifting in patients with frontal lobe damage or Parkinson's disease (1993)

Owen, Adrian M., Roberts, Angela C., Hodges, John R., Robbins, Trevor W.

Tests which assess the ability to shift cognitive set modelled after the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test are particularly sensitive to impairments in patients with Parkinson's disease as well as in...

Functional organization of spatial and nonspatial working memory processing within the human lateral frontal cortex

Owen, Adrian M., Stern, Chantal E., Look, Rodney B., Tracey, Irene, Rosen, Bruce R., Petrides, Michael

The present study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate that performance of visual spatial and visual nonspatial working memory tasks involve the same regions of the lateral...

Functional organization of spatial and nonspatial working memory processing within the human lateral frontal cortex

Owen, Adrian M., Stern, Chantal E., Look, Rodney B., Tracey, Irene, Rosen, Bruce R., Petrides, Michael

The present study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate that performance of visual spatial and visual nonspatial working memory tasks involve the same regions of the lateral...

Dissociating speech perception and comprehension at reduced levels of awareness

Davis, Matthew H., Coleman, Martin R., Absalom, Anthony R., Rodd, Jennifer M., Johnsrude, Ingrid S., Matta, Basil F., ...

We used functional MRI and the anesthetic agent propofol to assess the relationship among neural responses to speech, successful comprehension, and conscious awareness. Volunteers were scanned while...

The Target Selective Neural Response — Similarity, Ambiguity, and Learning Effects

Hampshire, Adam, Thompson, Russell, Duncan, John, Owen, Adrian M.

A network of frontal and parietal brain regions is commonly recruited during tasks that require the deliberate ‘top-down’ control of thought and action. Previously, using simple target detection,...

Neural Correlates of Appetite and Hunger-Related Evaluative Judgments

Piech, Richard M., Lewis, Jade, Parkinson, Caroline H., Owen, Adrian M., Roberts, Angela C., Downing, Paul E., ...

How much we desire a meal depends on both the constituent foods and how hungry we are, though not every meal becomes more desirable with increasing hunger. The brain therefore needs to be able to...