The spectral power coherence of the EEG under different EMF conditions

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 441, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 188-192

  Hountala, Chrissanthi D ^a   Maganioti, Argiro E ^a   Papageorgiou, Charalambos C ^b,c   Nanou, Eleni D ^a   Kyprianou, Miltiades A ^c   Tsiafakis, Vassilis G ^a   Rabavilas, Andreas D ^c   Capsalis, Christos N ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coherence; EEG; EMF; Gender; Rhythms; SPC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POWER ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION RESPONSE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTRAL POWER COHERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 46949109486     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.06.035     Document Type: Article

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