Impaired cerebral oscillatory processing in hepatic encephalopathy

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 265-272

  Timmermann, L ^b   Butz, M ^a   Gross, J ^c   Ploner, M ^e   Sudmeyer M ^a   Kircheis, G ^a   Haussinger D ^a   Schnitzler, A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Coherence; EMG; Hepatic encephalopathy; MEG; Tremor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND MUSCLE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR SYSTEM; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TREMOR; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FLICKER FUSION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 37349075468     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.09.138     Document Type: Article

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