Returning from oblivion: Imaging the neural core of consciousness

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 4935-4943

  Långsjö, Jaakko W ^a,b   Alkire, Michael T ^c   Kaskinoro, Kimmo ^d   Hayama, Hiroki ^c   Maksimow, Anu ^d   Kaisti, Kaike K ^a   Aalto, Sargo ^a   Aantaa, Riku ^d   Jääskeläinen, Satu K ^d   Revonsuo, Antti ^a,e   Scheinin, Harry ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b SEINÄJOKI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^f Pulssi Medical Centre   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOREBRAIN; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SUBCORTEX; THALAMUS;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859372207     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4962-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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