Getting drowsy? alert/nonalert transitions and visual thalamocortical network dynamics

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 48, 2011, Pages 17480-17487

  Bereshpolova, Yulia ^a   Stoelzel, Carl R ^a   Zhuang, Jun ^a   Amitai, Yael ^b   Alonso, Jose Manuel ^a,c   Swadlow, Harvey A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; DROWSINESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERNEURON; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REM SLEEP; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; NEURONS; RABBITS; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 82555200908     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2262-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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