Corticospinal excitability during laughter: Implications for cataplexy and the comparison with REM sleep atonia

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 257-264

  Overeem, Sebastiaan ^a   Reijntjes, Robert ^a   Huyser, Wesseline ^a   Lammers, Gert Jan ^a   Van Dijk, J Gert ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cataplexy; H reflex; Laughter; Magnetic evoked potential; Rapid eye movement sleep atonia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATAPLEXY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REM SLEEP; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

AROUSAL; CATAPLEXY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MAGNETICS; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SLEEP, REM; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 4944237890     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2004.00411.x     Document Type: Article

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