The prefrontal cortex in sleep

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 475-481

  Muzur, Amir ^a   Pace Schott, Edward F ^a   Hobson, J Allan ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; EYE MOVEMENTS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

NEURONS;

SLEEP RESEARCH;

ACETYLCHOLINE;

AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENTATION; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0036849490     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(02)01992-7     Document Type: Review

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