Anomalous hypothalamic responses to humor in cataplexy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Reiss, Allan L ^a   Hoeft, Fumiko ^a   Tenforde, Adam S ^a   Chen, Wynne ^a   Mobbs, Dean ^a,b   Mignot, Emmanuel J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; CATAPLEXY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMOR; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NARCOLEPSY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; SLEEP; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CATAPLEXY; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC;

EID: 48249102682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002225     Document Type: Article

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