Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 57-67 , March 2006

Altered states of consciousness: Processed EEG in mental disease

  • Andreas Spiegel, MD (Resident in Anaesthesiology)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 431 597 2991; fax: +49 431 597 3002.
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  • Peter H. Tonner, MD (Professor of Anaesthesiology)
  • Maurizio Renna, MD, FRCA (Consultant Anaesthetist, Honorary Senior Lecturer)

      Affiliations

    • Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK.

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2005.07.010

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