Brain potentials related to rapid eye movements and dreaming during REM sleep: A short review of psychophysiological correlates

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 128-138

  Hori, Tadao ^a   Ogawa, Keiko ^c,d,e   Abe, Takashi ^f   Nittono, Hiroshi ^b  

^a Sleep Research Institute   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^f NEUROPSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dream image generation; Gamma band EEG activity; Lambda like response; Pre REM negativity (PRN); Rapid eye movement (REM); Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANISOTROPY; DREAM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL PARAMETERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVOUS SYSTEM POTENTIAL; PONTOGENICULOOCCIPITAL WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STRIATE CORTEX; VIVID DREAM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 47649094581     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2008.00358.x     Document Type: Review

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