Constructing the Alzheimer Patient
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EEG based detection of Alzheimer disease and monitoring of Alzheimer patient
---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract Alzheimer’s disease is most common cause of dementia and involves a progressive degeneration of the cerebral cortex. It is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and gets worse over time. In Alzheimer disease death of the br...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science & Technology Studies
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2243-4690
DOI: 10.23987/sts.55239