Spatiotemporal patterns of spindle oscillations in cortex and thalamus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1179-1196

  Contreras, Diego ^a   Destexhe, Alain ^a   Sejnowski, Terrence J ^b   Steriade, Mircea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

cortex; corticothalamic feedback; multisite recordings; sleep spindles; synchronization; thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DECORTICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP SPINDLE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS;

EID: 0031020398     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-03-01179.1997     Document Type: Article

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