Pro: All dwellers at high altitude are persons of impaired physical and mental powers

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 208-211

  Yan, Xiaodan ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILE; CHINA; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MOUNTAINEERING; NEUROIMAGING; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL CLASS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MOUNTAINEERING; NEUROIMAGING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84884785999     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2013.1026     Document Type: Article

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