Heritability of "small-world" networks in the brain: A graph theoretical analysis of resting-state EEG functional connectivity

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1368-1378

  Smit, Dirk J A ^a,b   Stam, Cornelis J ^b   Posthuma, Danielle ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   De Geus, Eco J C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EEG; Functional connectivity; Heritability; Resting state; Synchronization likelihood; Twin study

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADULT; BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57149119687     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20468     Document Type: Article

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