Two features of sleep slow waves: Homeostatic and reactive aspects - from long term to instant sleep homeostasis

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1184-1195

  Halász, Péter ^a   Bódizs, Róbert ^b   Parrino, Liborio ^c   Terzano, Mario ^c  

^a Epilepsy Center   (Hungary)

^b Department of Bioethics   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cyclic Alternating Pattern (CAP); Instant sleep homeostasis; K complex; Plastic sleep functions; Reactive slow waves; Sleep homeostasis; Sleep slow oscillation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AROUSAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CYCLIC ALTERNATING PATTERN; DATA ANALYSIS; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; SLEEP HOMEOSTASIS; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP;

HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SLEEP;

EID: 84922535090     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2014.06.006     Document Type: Review

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