Sleep, consciousness and the spontaneous and evoked electrical activity of the brain. Is there a cortical integrating mechanism?

Neurophysiologie Clinique

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-10

  Evans, B M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomic activity; Awareness; CAP; EEG; Emotion; EPs; Explicit memory; Sleep mechanisms; Sleep spindles; Thalamo cortical network; Total consciousness

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; OREXIN;

AMNESIA; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AWARENESS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN METABOLISM; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIENCEPHALON; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEMORY; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REM SLEEP; SELF CONCEPT; SLEEP; THALAMUS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0038666453     PISSN: 09877053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0987-7053(03)00002-9     Document Type: Article

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