Age-related changes in electroencephalographic signal complexity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d IRCCS San Raffale Pisana   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGED; AGING; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MODULATION; REST; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84951119290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141995     Document Type: Article

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