Alpha burst activity during human REM sleep: Descriptive study and functional hypotheses

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 909-915

  Cantero, José Luis ^a,b   Atienza, Mercedes ^a,b  

^a Laboratory of Sleep and Cognition   (Spain)

^b Dept Exp Psychol Fac P   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alpha activity; Humans; Micro arousal; REM; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SLEEP PATTERN;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM;

EID: 0034192190     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00318-1     Document Type: Article

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