Interhemispheric EEG asymmetries during unilateral bright-light exposure and subsequent sleep in humans

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Cajochen, Christian ^a   Di Biase, Rosalba ^b   Imai, Makoto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Photic stimulation; Spectral analysis; Use dependent sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SPECTROSCOPY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THETA RHYTHM; TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SLEEP; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 40449138714     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00747.2007     Document Type: Article

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