EEG upper/low alpha frequency power ratio relates to temporo-parietal brain atrophy and memory performances in mild cognitive impairment

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Moretti, Davide V ^a   Paternicò, Donata ^a   Binetti, Giuliano ^a   Zanetti, Orazio ^a   Frisoni, Giovanni B ^a  

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

Author keywords

Brain rhythms; Cortical atrophy; EEG; MCI diagnosis; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM UPPER LOW ALPHA FREQUENCY POWER RATIO; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOPOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84900362328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2013.00063     Document Type: Article

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