Noise as therapy: A prelude to computationally-based neurology?

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 173-174

  Milton, John G ^a  

^a The Claremont Colleges   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BODY POSTURE; DIGITAL COMPUTER; EDITORIAL; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; GALVANIC VESTIBULAR TEST; HEART RATE; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NOISE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; HUMANS; NEUROLOGY; NOISE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; VESTIBULE;

EID: 23244443966     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.20589     Document Type: Editorial

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