Effects of cable car ascent to 2700 meters on mean EEG frequency and event-related desynchronization (ERD)

Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 155, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 143-148

  Guger, Christoph ^a,b   Domej, Wolfgang ^a,c   Lindner, Gerhard ^a   Edlinger, Günter ^b  

^a ARGE Alpinmedizin   (Austria)

^b G TEC MEDICAL ENGINEERING GMBH   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Beta oscillations; Cortical excitability; Event related desynchronization (ERD); High altitude; Mean frequency of the beta band

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CABLE CAR; CAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ATTENTION; AUSTRIA; BETA RHYTHM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 19444378929     PISSN: 00435341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10354-005-0161-9     Document Type: Article

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