Spectral power time-courses of human sleep EEG reveal a striking discontinuity at ∼18 Hz marking the division between NREM-specific and wake/REM-specific fast frequency activity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 877-884

  Merica, Helli ^a   Fortune, Ronald D ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beta band limits; Brainstem thalamic activating neurons; Neuronal transition probability model; Spectral analysis; Spindles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

ADULT; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIODICITY; SLEEP, REM; THALAMUS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 20544453299     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh192     Document Type: Article

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