One or many arousal systems? Reflections on some of Guiseppe Moruzzi's foresights and insights about the intrinsic regulation of brain activity

Archives Italiennes de Biologie

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-14

  Berlucchi, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; ITALY; NEUROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0031041537     PISSN: 00039829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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