Distributions and sources of magnetoencephalographic K-complexes

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 544-555

  Numminen, Jussi ^a   Mäkelä, Jyrki P ^a,b   Hari, Riitta ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b CENTRAL MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

human; K complex; magnetoencephalography; MEG; minimum norm estimate; sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWSINESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP;

EID: 0030446015     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-4694(96)95712-0     Document Type: Article

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