EEG functional connectivity, axon delays and white matter disease

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 110-120

  Nunez, Paul L ^a   Srinivasan, Ramesh ^b,c   Fields, R Douglas ^d  

^a Cognitive Dissonance LLC ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^d EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha rhythms; Axon propagation speed; Cortico cortical axons; Functional connectivity; Global dynamics; Local networks; Multi scale dynamics; White matter disease

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONNECTOME; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; OSCILLATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOCIAL NETWORK; WAVEFORM; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER INJURY; ANIMAL; AXON; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; NERVE NET; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84917670976     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.04.003     Document Type: Article

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