Heritability of background EEG across the power spectrum

Psychophysiology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 691-697

  Smit, D J A ^a   Posthuma, D ^a   Boomsma, D I ^a   De Geus, E J C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genetic correlation; Heritability; Temporal stability; Twin study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EYELID CLOSURE; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; THETA RHYTHM; ALGORITHM; ALPHA RHYTHM; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWINS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ALPHA RHYTHM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33644874850     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2005.00352.x     Document Type: Article

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