Hallucinatory experiences in extreme-altitude climbers

Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-71

  Brugger, Peter ^a   Regard, Marianne ^a   Landis, Theodor ^b   Oelz, Oswald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Neurologie   (Switzerland)

^c Stadtspital Triemli ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; ILLUSION; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033498905     PISSN: 0894878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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