EEG, ECG and oxygen concentration changes from sea level to a simulated altitude of 4000 m and back to sea level

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 442, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 123-127

  Guger, Christoph ^a,b   Krausert, Stefan ^c   Domej, Wolfgang ^b,d   Edlinger, Günter ^a   Tannheimer, Markus ^c  

^a G TEC MEDICAL ENGINEERING GMBH   (Austria)

^b ARGE Alpinmedizin ^*  (Austria)

^c Military Hospital Ulm   (Germany)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Beta oscillations; ECG; EEG; Event related desynchronization (ERD); Heart rate variability; High altitude

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BETA RHYTHM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PARAMETER; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPONSE TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; SEA LEVEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 48149087059     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.06.075     Document Type: Article

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