Small-worldness characteristics and its gender relation in specific hemispheric networks

Neuroscience

Volumn 310, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-11

  Miraglia, F ^a   Vecchio, F ^a   Bramanti, P ^b   Rossini, P M ^a,c  

^a IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS CENTRO NEUROLESI BONINO PULEJO   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

EEG; Functional connectivity; Gender; Graph theory; Resting state; Small world networks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL NETWORK; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL NETWORK; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING STATE NETWORK; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORIMOTOR NETWORK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL WORLDNESS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN RELATION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; REST; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REST; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84942305065     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.09.028     Document Type: Article

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