Cortical alpha rhythms are correlated with body sway during quiet open-eyes standing in athletes: A high-resolution EEG study

NeuroImage

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 822-829

  Del Percio, Claudio ^a,b   Brancucci, Alfredo ^a   Bergami, Francesca ^c   Marzano, Nicola ^a,c   Fiore, Antonio ^d   Di Ciolo, Enrico ^d   Aschieri, Pierluigi ^e,f   Lino, Andrea ^e   Vecchio, Fabrizio ^b,c   Iacoboni, Marco ^c   Gallamini, Michele ^g   Babiloni, Claudio ^b,c   Eusebi, Fabrizio ^a,c  

^a Italian National Olympic Committee   (Italy)

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

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Federazione Italiana di Scherma   (Italy)

^e Federazione Italiana Judo Lotta Karate ed Arti Marziali FIJLKAM   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^g RGM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpha rhythms; Elite athletes; Event related desynchronization (ERD); High resolution electroencephalography (EEG); Sport science; Stabilogram

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORT; STANDING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAINING; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ALPHA RHYTHM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARTIAL ARTS; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; SPORTS;

EID: 34250356841     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.02.054     Document Type: Article

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