Mild traumatic brain injury: Graph-model characterization of brain networks for episodic memory

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 89-96

  Tsirka, Vasso ^a   Simos, Panagiotis G ^a   Vakis, Antonios ^a   Kanatsouli, Kassiani ^a   Vourkas, Michael ^b   Erimaki, Sofia ^a   Pachou, Ellie ^a   Stam, Cornelis Jan ^c   Micheloyannis, Sifis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Declarative memory; Episodic memory; Graph theory; Mild traumatic brain injury; Small World Networks; Synchronization likelihood

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENERGY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; OSCILLATION; PARAMETER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; RECORDING; REST; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; VERBALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551615735     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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