Motor control during sleep and wakefulness: Clarifying controversies and resolving paradoxes

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 299-312

  Chase, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypocretin cataplexy; Motor control; Postsynaptic inhibition; REM sleep; Reticular response reversal; Wakefulness

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; NANOPARTICLE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN STEM; CATAPLEXY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; HYPOTHALAMUS; INNERVATION; MICRODIALYSIS; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; OPTOGENETICS; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; REM SLEEP; RETICULAR FORMATION; REVIEW; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SPINAL CORD; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE TONUS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84878403992     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: 15322955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2012.09.003     Document Type: Review

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