Fractal dimension of EEG activity senses neuronal impairment in acute stroke

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Zappasodi, Filippo ^a   Olejarczyk, Elzbieta ^a,b   Marzetti, Laura ^a   Assenza, Giovanni ^c   Pizzella, Vittorio ^a   Tecchio, Franca ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^d FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRACTAL DIMENSION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSCILLATION; PROGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STROKE;

AGED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS; STROKE;

EID: 84903388911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100199     Document Type: Article

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