Neural synchronization in hepatic encephalopathy

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 337-346

  Timmermann, Lars ^a   Butz, Markus ^a   Gross, Joachim ^a   Kircheis, Gerald ^a   Häussinger, Dieter ^a   Schnitzler, Alfons ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Coherence; EMG; Hepatic encephalopathy; MEG; Synchonization; Tremor

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ALERTNESS; BRAIN REGION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SWELLING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FLAPPING TREMOR; GLIA CELL; HEPATIC COMA; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; NEURONS; VISION;

EID: 29744437759     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-005-7916-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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