Life-Span Development of Brain Network Integration Assessed with Phase Lag Index Connectivity and Minimum Spanning Tree Graphs

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 312-325

  Smit, Dirk J A ^a,d   De Geus, Eco J C ^a,b   Boersma, Maria ^c   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a,b   Stam, Cornelis J ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain development; Electroencephalography; Graph theory; PLI; Volume conduction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIBLING; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TWINS; AGE; AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; CONNECTOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CONNECTOME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET;

EID: 84991518907     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2015.0359     Document Type: Article

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