Decreased EEG microstate duration and anteriorisation of the brain electrical fields in mild and moderate dementia of the Alzheimer type

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 183-191

  Strik, Werner K ^a   Chiaramonti, Roberta ^b   Muscas, Gian Carlo ^b   Paganini, Marco ^b   Mueller, Thomas J ^a   Fallgatter, Andreas J ^a   Versari, Angela ^b   Zappoli, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive spatial segmentation; DAT; Microstates; Spontaneous EEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0031437976     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4927(97)00054-1     Document Type: Article

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