Resting-state quantitative electroencephalography reveals increased neurophysiologic connectivity in depression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Leuchter, Andrew F ^a   Cook, Ian A ^a   Hunter, Aimee M ^a   Cai, Chaochao ^b,c   Horvath, Steve ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTOPOLAR REGION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PARIETOOCCIPITAL REGION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REST; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OSCILLOMETRY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84857550853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032508     Document Type: Article

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