Arousal - Physiology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Heart rate variability in novice pilots during and after a multi-leg cross-country flight.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: A pilot's workload induces autonomic nervous system modulations which could be related to a decrease of vigilance that could impair safety. Kinetics during flight and recovery are not well known. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to ... Read more...

Basal forebrain lactate release and promotion of cortical arousal during prolonged waking is attenuated in aging.

14 Sep 2009 The wake-promoting basal forebrain (BF) is critically involved in sustaining cortical arousal. In the present study, we investigated how aging affects the capacity of the BF to cope with continuous activation during prolonged waking. Increased ... Read more...

EEG differences in children between eyes-closed and eyes-open resting conditions.

10 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Recent work on arousal vs. activation in adults showed that skin conductance levels (SCLs) increased, and global alpha levels decreased, from eyes-closed to eyes-open resting baseline conditions. This study explored whether similar ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Arousal - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Heart rate variability in novice pilots during and after a multi-leg cross-country flight. 29 Sep 2009
• Basal forebrain lactate release and promotion of cortical arousal during prolonged waking is attenuated in aging. 14 Sep 2009
• EEG differences in children between eyes-closed and eyes-open resting conditions. 10 Sep 2009
• Two systems of resting state connectivity between the insula and cingulate cortex. 30 Aug 2009
• Evidence for a putative biomarker for substance dependence. 30 Aug 2009
• Vulnerability to depression: what is the role of stress genes in gene x environment interaction? 30 Aug 2009
• We can work it out: age differences in relational pronouns, physiology, and behavior in marital conflict. 30 Aug 2009
• Functional neuroanatomy of sleep and circadian rhythms. 16 Aug 2009
• Substantial similarity in amygdala neuronal activity during conditioned appetitive and aversive emotional arousal. 12 Aug 2009
• [An integrated functional brain, not a partitioned brain] 30 Jul 2009
• Disentangling emotion processes in borderline personality disorder: physiological and self-reported assessment of biological vulnerability, baseline intensity, and reactivity to emotionally evocative stimuli. 30 Jul 2009
• The hypocretins and their role in narcolepsy. 30 Jul 2009
• Is a dark virtual environment scary? 30 Jul 2009
• Autonomic functioning moderates the relations between contextual factors and externalizing behaviors among inner-city children. 30 Jul 2009
• A transcranial Doppler sonography study of shoot/don't-shoot responding. 30 Jul 2009
• Pain sensitivity in sleepy pain-free normals. 30 Jul 2009
• Tell me about it: neural activity elicited by emotional pictures and preceding descriptions. 30 Jul 2009
• Effects of emotionally contagious films on changes in hemisphere-specific cognitive performance. 30 Jul 2009
• In what sense 'familiar'? Examining experiential differences within pathologies of facial recognition. 20 Jul 2009
• BIS/BAS, cortical oscillations and coherence in response to emotional cues. 6 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Arousal'

Definition: Cortical vigilance or readiness of tone, presumed to be in response to sensory stimulation via the reticular activating system.

Descriptor UI: D001143

Alternative terms: Arousal; Arousals; Vigilance, Cortical; Cortical Vigilance;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics; genetics;

Tree Number: F02.830.104; G11.561.600.042;

History Note: 66(64)

Technical Notes: human & animal