The role of resting frontal EEG asymmetry in psychopathology: Afferent or efferent filter?

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 73-85

  Gatzke Kopp, Lisa M ^a   Jetha, Michelle K ^b   Segalowitz, Sidney J ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggression; Antisocial; Anxiety; Depression; Pediatric; Prefrontal asymmetry

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIATRIC; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL ASYMMETRY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; PEDIATRIC; PREFRONTAL ASYMMETRY;

AFFECT; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84889688851     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.21092     Document Type: Article

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