Intermittent burst-firing weak (1 microTesla) magnetic fields reduce psychometric depression in patients who sustained closed head injuries: A replication and electroencephalographic validation

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 96, Issue 3 I, 2003, Pages 965-974

  Baker Price, Laura ^a   Persinger, M A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETICS; FEMALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0141575588     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2003.96.3.965     Document Type: Article

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