Wakefulness
"Wakefulness" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A state in which there is an enhanced potential for sensitivity and an efficient responsiveness to external stimuli.
| Descriptor ID |
D014851
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.830.104.821 G11.561.600.042.738
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Wakefulness" by people in Profiles.
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Song W, Francis JT. Gating of tactile information through gamma band during passive arm movement in awake primates. Front Neural Circuits. 2015; 9:64.
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Reynolds KC, Alfano CA. Things that Go Bump in the Night: Frequency and Predictors of Nightmares in Anxious and Nonanxious Children. Behav Sleep Med. 2016 Jul-Aug; 14(4):442-56.
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Wu W, Sheth BR. Sound-induced perturbations of the brain network in non-REM sleep, and network oscillations in wake. Psychophysiology. 2013 Mar; 50(3):274-86.
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Sheth BR, Nguyen N, Janvelyan D. Does sleep really influence face recognition memory? PLoS One. 2009; 4(5):e5496.
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Liu S, Sheth BR. Discrimination of behaviorally irrelevant auditory stimuli in stage II sleep. Neuroreport. 2009 Jan 28; 20(2):207-12.
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Sheth BR, Janvelyan D, Khan M. Practice makes imperfect: restorative effects of sleep on motor learning. PLoS One. 2008 Sep 12; 3(9):e3190.
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Dragomir A, Akay Y, Curran AK, Akay M. Complexity measures of the central respiratory networks during wakefulness and sleep. J Neural Eng. 2008 Jun; 5(2):254-61.
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Dragomir A, Akay YM, Curran A, Akay M. Complexity measures of the central respiratory networks during wakefulness and sleep in piglets. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007; 2007:5429-30.