Physiologic Basis of the EEG Signal

Standard Electroencephalography in Clinical Psychiatry: A Practical Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 7-12

  Bucci, Paola ^a   Galderisi, Silvana ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action potential; Dipole; Electrical field potentials; Excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials; Genesis of EEG rhythms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886131772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470974612.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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