Effect of reflexology on EEG - A nonlinear approach

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 641-650

  Kannathal, N ^a   Paul, Joseph K ^a   Lim, C M ^a   Chua, K P ^a   Sadasivan, P K ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Capacity dimension; Correlation dimension; EEG; Entropy; Hurst exponent; Lyapunov exponent; Nonlinear analysis; Reflexology

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EGYPT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; MASSAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDITATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; YOGA;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MASSAGE; RELAXATION TECHNIQUES;

EID: 4644360735     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X04002272     Document Type: Article

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