Brain and body: Associations between EEG-vigilance and the autonomous nervous system activity during rest

Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 190-200

  Olbrich, Sebastian ^a,b   Sander, Christian ^a,b   Matschinger, Herbert ^b   Mergl, Roland ^a   Trenner, Maja ^a   Schönknecht, Peter ^a,b   Hegerl, Ulrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arousal; Autonomic nervous system; Autonomic space; EEG vigilance; Heart rate variability; Skin conductance level

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ALGORITHM; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; REST; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SLEEP STAGE; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 82155188537     PISSN: 02698803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000061     Document Type: Article

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