Covert waking brain activity reveals instantaneous sleep depth

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  McKinney, Scott M ^a   Dang Vu, Thien Thanh ^a,b,c   Buxton, Orfeu M ^b,d   Solet, Jo M ^b,e   Ellenbogen, Jeffrey M ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Cambridge Health Alliance ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AWARENESS; BISPECTRAL INDEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROFEEDBACK; NEUROMONITORING; NOISE; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; REM SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP INDUCTION; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP STAGE; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SOUND INTENSITY; WAKEFULNESS; BRAIN; DARKNESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; DARKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SLEEP STAGES; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 79952296653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017351     Document Type: Article

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