A unique pattern of sleep structure is found to be identical at all cortical sites: A neurobiological interpretation

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1044-1050

  Merica, Helli ^a   Fortune, Ronald D ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROL SYSTEM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMA RHYTHM; SLEEP PATTERN; THALAMUS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 0141625026     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/13.10.1044     Document Type: Article

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