Does conscious intention to perform a motor act depend on slow prefrontal (de)oxyhemoglobin oscillations in the resting brain?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 508, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 89-94

  Pfurtscheller, Gert ^a   Bauernfeind, Günther ^a   Neuper, Christa ^a,b   Lopes da Silva, Fernando H ^c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(De)oxyhemoglobin oscillations; Blood pressure oscillations; EEG oscillations; Resting brain; Voluntary movement

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXCITATION; FEMALE; FINGER; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FINGERS; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INTENTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PERIODICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84856083956     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.12.025     Document Type: Article

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