Discharge patterns of neurons in cholinergic regions of the basal forebrain during waking and sleep

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 171-182

  Szymusiak, Ronald ^a,b   Alam, Noor ^a,b   McGinty, Dennis ^a,b  

^a Research Service (151A3)   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Adenosine; Arousal; Basal forebrain; GABA; Hypothalamus; Sleep

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; ADENOSINE;

BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOREBRAIN; HEAD MOVEMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMOBILIZATION; LIMB MOVEMENT; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TEGMENTUM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0033800726     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00257-6     Document Type: Article

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