The biophysical bases of will-less behaviours

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCTOBER 2012, 2012, Pages

  Velazquez, José Luis Perez ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain dynamics; Brain synchrony; Coherence; Coordination dynamics; Excitability; Free will; Neurophysics; Psychiatry; Volition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN CONNECTIVITY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SYNCHRONY; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; COORDINATION DISORDER; DISINHIBITION SYNDROME; DREAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PASSIVITY SYNDROME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNDROME; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TIC; WILFUL BEHAVIOR; WILL LESS BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84867614331     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00098     Document Type: Article

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