Hepatic encephalopathy is associated with slowed and delayed stimulus-associated somatosensory alpha activity

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 125, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2427-2435

  May, Elisabeth S ^a   Butz, Markus ^a,b   Kahlbrock, Nina ^a   Brenner, Meike ^a   Hoogenboom, Nienke ^a   Kircheis, Gerald ^a   Häussinger, Dieter ^a   Schnitzler, Alfons ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Critical flicker frequency (CFF); Liver; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Oscillations; Slowing

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84927694867     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.03.018     Document Type: Article

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