Quantitative EEG in acute mountain sickness

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 386-390

  Sand, T ^a,b   Nygaard, O ^b  

^a Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; Cerebral physiology; Electroencephalography; High altitude medicine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NORMAL HUMAN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0032409418     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1998.tb07318.x     Document Type: Article

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