Altered fractal dynamics of gait: Reduced stride-interval correlations with aging and Huntington's disease

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 262-269

  Hausdorff, Jeffrey M ^a,b   Mitchell, Susan L ^a,b,c   Firtion, Renée ^d   Peng, C K ^a   Cudkowicz, Merit E ^e   Wei, Jeanne Y ^a,b   Goldberger, Ary L ^a,d  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Boston University   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

human locomotion; long range correlations; nonlinear dynamics; power law scaling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031037323     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1997.82.1.262     Document Type: Article

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