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Definition of Alpha rhythm
1. Noun. The normal brainwave in the electroencephalogram of a person who is awake but relaxed; occurs with a frequency of 8-12 hertz.
Medical Definition of Alpha rhythm
1. Brain waves in the encephalogram which have a frequency of 8 to 13 per second. They are typical of the normal person awake and in a quiet resting state, and occur principally in the occipital region. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alpha Rhythm
Literary usage of Alpha rhythm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Emergency And Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels For Selected Submarine by Best, National Research Council (U.S.) (2007)
"Cerebral hypoxia may produce slowing of the alpha rhythm, increases in the slow-wave
... Changes in the alpha rhythm (10-11 hertz), the most sensitive EEG ..."
2. Radiant Healing: The Many Paths to Personal Harmony and Planetary Wholeness by Bellamy Isabel, Isabel Bellamy, Donald MacLean, Maclean Donald (2005)
"An alpha rhythm has a calming effect and if played with music either sends people
to sleep or enables them to enjoy the music to the full. ..."
3. Review of the Department of Defense Research Program on Low-Level Exposures by Best, Committee on Toxicology, NetLibrary, Inc, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences (2005)
"Exposed workers had higher-voltage EEGs with more pronounced alpha rhythm and
bursts of slow waves during drowsiness. The individuals also had a high ..."
4. Individual Differences in the Behavioral Etiology of Drug Abuse edited by Harold W. Gordon, Meyer D. Glantz (1997)
"Volavka monitored the alpha rhythm in 11- to 13-year-old children at high risk
for delinquency and found that a slower average alpha frequency predicted ..."
5. Nicotine in Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco Products Is a Drug and These edited by Barry Leonard (1999)
"Human Smoking Studies: Acute Effect of Cigarette Smoke on Brain Wave alpha rhythm -
First Report. October 31,1974. Cohen AJ, Roe FJC. ..."
6. Air Quality Criteria for Oxides of Nitrogenby Dennis J. Kotchmar by Dennis J. Kotchmar (1996)
"alpha rhythm: A rhythmic pulsation obtained in brain waves exhibited in the
sleeping state of an individual. Alveolar capillary membrane: Finest portion of ..."
7. Relative Connections by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1993)
"... on the same old alpha rhythm of 10 hertz. And in fact, the signal's pulse is
generally about that rate.” Becker and Selden stated: “The available ..."
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