Mobile phone emission modulates inter-hemispheric functional coupling of EEG alpha rhythms in elderly compared to young subjects

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 163-171

  Vecchio, Fabrizio ^a,b   Babiloni, Claudio ^c,d   Ferreri, Florinda ^a,e,f   Buffo, Paola ^g   Cibelli, Giuseppe ^c   Curcio, Giuseppe ^d,h   Dijkman, Sven van ^g   Melgari, Jean Marc ^e   Giambattistelli, Federica ^e   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^d,e  

^a FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^d Casa di Cura S Raffaele   (Italy)

^e Clinical Neurology   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^g SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Alpha band; EEG; Functional coupling; Mobile phone emission; Spectral coherence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFERENCE VALUE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALPHA RHYTHM; CELLULAR PHONE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75449083557     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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