Losing the struggle to stay awake: Divergent thalamic and cortical activity during microsleeps

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 257-269

  Poudel, Govinda R ^a,b,c   Innes, Carrie R H ^a,b   Bones, Philip J ^a,d   Watts, Richard ^a,d   Jones, Richard D ^a,b,c,d  

^a NEW ZEALAND BRAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Drowsiness; EEG; FMRI; Microsleeps; Visuomotor tracking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; DROWSINESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE TRACKING; EYE VIDEO; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROSLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; THETA RHYTHM; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL CORTEX;

DROWSINESS; EEG; FMRI; MICROSLEEPS; VISUOMOTOR TRACKING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP STAGES; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889654706     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22178     Document Type: Article

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