The neurophysics of consciousness

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-28

  John, E Roy ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Coherence; Consciousness; Entropy; Ground state; Synchrony; Variable resolution electromagnetic tomography (VARETA)

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; AGE; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; AWARENESS; BINDING AFFINITY; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENERGY; ENTROPY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OSCILLATION; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSATION; SLEEP; STEADY STATE; THALAMUS; THEORY;

BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; PERCEPTION; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0036085778     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0173(02)00142-X     Document Type: Review

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