Sources of cortical rhythms in adults during physiological aging: A multicentric EEG study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 162-172

  Babiloni, Claudio ^a,b,c   Binetti, Giuliano ^b   Cassarino, Andrea ^a   Dal Forno, Gloria ^d   Del Percio, Claudio ^a   Ferreri, Florinda ^c,d   Ferri, Raffaele ^e   Frisoni, Giovanni ^b,c   Galderisi, Silvana ^f   Hirata, Koichi ^g   Lanuzza, Bartolo ^e   Miniussi, Carlo ^b   Mucci, Armida ^f   Nobili, Flavio ^h   Rodriguez, Guido ^h   Romani, Gian Luca ⁱ   Rossini, Paolo M ^b,c,d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^c FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^e OASI RESEARCH INSTITUTE IRCCS   (Italy)

^f SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^g DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpha rhythm; Electroencephalography (EEG); Low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (LORETA); Physiological aging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DELTA RHYTHM; DEMENTIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; LINEAR SYSTEM; LOW RESOLUTION BRAIN ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 32544458362     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20175     Document Type: Article

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