Skull thickness and magnitude of EEG alpha activity

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1271-1280

  Hagemann, Dirk ^a   Hewig, Johannes ^b   Walter, Christof ^c   Naumann, Ewald ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c Central Interdisciplinary Ultrasound Municipal Hospital Trier Barmherzige Brüder   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha activity; Electroencephalography (EEG); Individual differences; Skull thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL BONE; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; TEMPORAL BONE; THICKNESS; VARIANCE;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SKULL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 42749086592     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.02.010     Document Type: Article

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