Directional information flows between brain hemispheres across waking, non-REM and REM sleep states: An EEG study

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 270-275

  Bertini, Mario ^a   Ferrara, Michele ^b   De Gennaro, Luigi ^a   Curcio, Giuseppe ^b,c   Moroni, Fabio ^a   Babiloni, Claudio ^c,d   Infarinato, Francesco ^e   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^c,f,g   PhD, Fabrizio Vecchio ^f,h  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c Casa di Cura S Raffaele   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^e IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^f SAN GIOVANNI CALIBITA FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

Consciousness; Corpus callosum; Directed transfer function (DTF); Quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG); Sleep mentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; SLEEP; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849134312     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2008.12.006     Document Type: Article

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