Human brain reacts to transcranial extraocular light

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Sun, Lihua ^a   Peräkylä, Jari ^a   Kovalainen, Anselmi ^a   Ogawa, Keith H ^b   Karhunen, Pekka J ^c   Hartikainen, Kaisa M ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CANAL; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CADAVER; DISTRACTIBILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SKULL BASE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL EXTRAOCULAR LIGHT; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VOLUNTEER; BRAIN; EVOKED RESPONSE; NON-THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; EAR CANAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84977668736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149525     Document Type: Article

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