Coherence and frequency in the reticular activating system (RAS)

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 227-238

  Garcia Rill, Edgar ^a   Kezunovic, Nebojsa ^a   Hyde, James ^a   Simon, Christen ^a   Beck, Paige ^a   Urbano, Francisco J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Arousal; Calcium channels; Gamma band; Gap junctions; Modafinil; Subthreshold oscillations

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL P TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNEL Q TYPE; CARBACHOL; CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 36; CYCLIC AMP; LIDOCAINE ETHOBROMIDE; MEFLOQUINE; MODAFINIL; OLEAMIDE;

ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NARCOLEPSY; NONREM SLEEP; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PONTINE NUCLEUS; PURKINJE CELL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; REM SLEEP; RETICULAR FORMATION; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SOMNOLENCE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AWARENESS; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; BETA RHYTHM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; LOCUS COERULEUS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PONS; RETICULAR FORMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SLEEP; SODIUM CHANNELS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84875670076     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: 15322955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2012.06.002     Document Type: Review

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