Coherence in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and excess beta activity in their EEG

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1472-1479

  Clarke, Adam R ^a   Barry, Robert J ^a   McCarthy, Rory ^b   Selikowitz, Mark ^b   Johnstone, Stuart J ^a   Hsu, Ching I ^a   Magee, Christopher A ^a   Lawrence, Carlie A ^a   Croft, Rodney J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b Sydney Developmental Clinic   (Australia)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; beta activity; Children; Coherence; EEG

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BETA RHYTHM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 34249665617     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.04.006     Document Type: Article

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