Weak, but complex pulsed magnetic fields may reduce depression following traumatic brain injury

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 491-498

  Baker Price, L A ^a   Persinger, M A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; AROUSAL; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; DELIRIUM, DEMENTIA, AMNESTIC, COGNITIVE DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030256419     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1996.83.2.491     Document Type: Article

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