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SUBMITTER: Larson-Prior LJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2657465 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Larson-Prior Linda J LJ Zempel John M JM Nolan Tracy S TS Prior Fred W FW Snyder Abraham Z AZ Raichle Marcus E ME
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090302 11
Descent into sleep is accompanied by disengagement of the conscious brain from the external world. It follows that this process should be associated with reduced neural activity in regions of the brain known to mediate interaction with the environment. We examined blood oxygen dependent (BOLD) signal functional connectivity using conventional seed-based analyses in 3 primary sensory and 3 association networks as normal young adults transitioned from wakefulness to light sleep while lying immobil ...[more]