Alpha entrainment in human electroencephalogram and magnetoencephalogram recordings

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 1829-1833

  Schwab, Karin ^a,c   Ligges, Carolin ^b   Jungmann, Tanja ^a   Hilgenfeld, Bernd ^c   Haueisen, Jens ^c,d   Witte, Herbert ^a  

^a Institute of Medical Statistics   (Germany)

^b Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ^*

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha rhythm; Electroencephalogram; Flicker stimulation; Frequency entrainment; Magnetoencephalogram

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33845649477     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000246326.89308.ec     Document Type: Article

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