Basal forebrain thermoregulatory mechanism modulates auto-regulated sleep

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn JUN, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mallick, Hruda Nanda ^a   Kumar, Velayudhan Mohan ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Ambient temperature; Basal forebrain; Preoptic area; Sleep; Thermal preference; Thermoneutral zone; Thermoreceptors; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865845762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2012.00102     Document Type: Article

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