Regional cerebral blood flow throughout the sleep-wake cycle. An H2(15)O PET study.
Braun AR, Balkin TJ, Wesenten NJ, Carson RE, Varga M, Baldwin P, Selbie S, Belenky G, Herscovitch P. Regional cerebral blood flow throughout the sleep-wake cycle. An H2(15)O PET study. Brain 1997, 120: 1173-1197. PMID: 9236630, DOI: 10.1093/brain/120.7.1173.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSlow-wave sleepSleep-wake cycleHeteromodal association areasREM sleepBasal gangliaSensory cortexState-dependent changesAssociation cortexAssociation areasRegional cerebral blood flowRapid eye movement (REM) sleepActivity of limbicMesial temporal cortexCerebral blood flowEye movement sleepSecondary sensory cortexNormal male volunteersCharacteristics of sleepHeteromodal association cortexFrontoparietal association cortexUnimodal sensory areasREM sleep stateStages of sleepStatistical parametric mappingCentrencephalic structures