Cortical functional connectivity networks in normal and spinal cord injured patients: Evaluation by graph analysis

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1334-1346

  De Vico Fallani, Fabrizio ^a,b   Astolfi, Laura ^a,b   Cincotti, Febo ^b   Mattia, Donatella ^b   Marciani, Maria Grazia ^b   Salinari, Serenella ^a   Kurths, Jurgen ^c   Gao, Shangkai ^d   Cichocki, Andrzej ^e   Colosimo, Alfredo ^a   Babiloni, Fabio ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Degree distributions; Digraph; DTF; Efficiency; High resolution EEG; Spinal cord injured

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JOINTS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 35148895973     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20353     Document Type: Article

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