The corticothalamic system in sleep

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Steriade, Mircea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortex; Intracellular; Oscillations; Review; Sleep; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PONS; RETICULUM CELL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SLEEP; SPINDLE CELL; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; SLEEP; THALAMUS;

EID: 1542673246     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/1043     Document Type: Review

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