Disentangling different functional roles of evoked K-complex components: Mapping the sleeping brain while quenching sensory processing

NeuroImage

Volumn 86, Issue , 2014, Pages 433-445

  Laurino, Marco ^a   Menicucci, Danilo ^b   Piarulli, Andrea ^c   Mastorci, Francesca ^b   Bedini, Remo ^b,c   Allegrini, Paolo ^b   Gemignani, Angelo ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bistability; Consciousness; K complex; NREM sleep; Slow oscillation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP STAGE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED K COMPLEX; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; SENSORY CORTEX;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; SENSATION; SLEEP STAGES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891561059     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.030     Document Type: Article

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