Power increases within the gamma range over the frontal and occipital regions during acute exposures to cerebrally counterclockwise rotating magnetic fields with specific derivatives of change

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1183-1193

  Tsang, E W ^a   Koren, S A ^a   Persinger, M A ^a,b  

^a Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brief exposures; Circumcerebral; Derivative of change; Electroencephalogram; Gamma frequencies; Human; Magnetic field

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ROTATION;

EID: 4444270264     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207450490475643     Document Type: Article

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