Effects of a fast cable car ascent to an altitude of 2700 meters on EEG and ECG

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 377, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-58

  Guger, Christoph ^a,b   Domej, Wolfgang ^a,c   Lindner, Gerhard ^a   Pfurtscheller, K ^a   Pfurtscheller, Gert ^d   Edlinger, Günter ^b  

^a ARGE Alpinmedizin   (Austria)

^b G TEC MEDICAL ENGINEERING GMBH   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Beta oscillations; Cortical excitability; Event related desynchronization (ERD); Heart rate variability; High altitude

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FINGER; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SEA LEVEL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 13844272260     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.11.065     Document Type: Article

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