Increase of theta frequency is associated with reduction in regional cerebral blood flow only in subjects with mild cognitive impairment with higher upper alpha/low alpha EEG frequency power ratio

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Moretti, Davide V ^a   Prestia, Annapaola ^a   Binetti, Giuliano ^a   Zanetti, Orazio ^a   Frisoni, Giovanni B ^a  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpha3 alpha2 frequency ratio; Alzheimer's disease; EEG; Mild cognitive impairment; SPECT

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE ETHYL ESTER TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THETA RHYTHM; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84889652146     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00188     Document Type: Article

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