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- The authors present a detailed review and update of the structures involved in the phase of wakefulness (W), including their morphological, functional and chemical characteristics, as well as their anatomical connections
Part of the book series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology (ADVSANAT, volume 208)
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
Keywords
- ascending reticular activating system
- ascending reticular activating system
- awareness
- basal forebrain
- cognitive process
- cognitive process
- coma
- consciousness
- dorsal mesopontine tegmentum
- light period
- light period
- retinal stimulation
- retinal stimulation
- thalamo-cerebral cortex unit
- thalamo-cerebral cortex unit
- thalamo-cerebral cortex unity
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Functional Anatomy of the Sleep-Wakefulness Cycle: Wakefulness
Authors: Fernando Reinoso-Suárez, Isabel de Andrés, Miguel Garzón
Series Title: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14626-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-14625-1Published: 05 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-14626-8Published: 13 October 2010
Series ISSN: 0301-5556
Series E-ISSN: 2192-7065
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 130
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences