Genetic influences on EEG coherence in 5-year-old twins

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-19

  Van Baal, G C M ^a   De Geus, E J C ^a   Boomsma, D I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain; Children; EEG coherence; Genetics; Heritability; Twins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RELIABILITY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; THETA RHYTHM; TWINS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; TWINS;

EID: 0031916491     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021400613723     Document Type: Article

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