Directional information flows between brain hemispheres during presleep wake and early sleep stages

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1970-1978

  Bertini, Mario ^a   Ferrara, Michele ^a,b   De Gennaro, Luigi ^a   Curcio, Giuseppe ^a,c   Moroni, Fabio ^a   Vecchio, Fabrizio ^a,d   De Gasperis, Marco ^a   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^c,d,e   Babiloni, Claudio ^a,d,e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^d SAN GIOVANNI CALIBITA FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebral hemispheres; Corpus callosum; Quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG); Wake sleep transition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN REGION; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REM SLEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SLEEP STAGE; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; THETA RHYTHM; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; SLEEP STAGES; SLEEP, REM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 34547674773     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl106     Document Type: Article

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