Objective assessment of the degree of dementia by means of EEG

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-26

  Brunovsky, Martin ^a,b   Matousek, Milos ^a   Edman, Ake ^c   Cervena, Katerina ^a   Krajca, Vladimir ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BULOVKA   (Czech Republic)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Coherence analysis; Degree of dementia; EEG; Spectrum analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 0042173197     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071824     Document Type: Article

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