Is there a relationship between fetal brain function and the fetal behavioral state? A fetal MEG-study

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 605-612

  Kiefer Schmidt, Isabelle ^a,b   Raufer, Julia ^a,b   Brändle, Johanna ^a,b   M̈nbinger, Jana ^b   Abele, Harald ^a   Wallwiener, Diethelm ^a   Eswaran, Hari ^c   Preissl, Hubert ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosignal processing; Fetal auditory evoked responses; Fetal behavioral states; Fetal magnetoencephalography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FETUS BRAIN FUNCTION; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MOVEMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FETAL MOVEMENT; FETUS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MAGNETOMETRY; MALE; PREGNANCY; SLEEP;

EID: 84888591373     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jpm-2013-0022     Document Type: Article

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