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Jesús Pastor1, Paula Garrido Zabala2, Lorena Vega-Zelaya1

  • 1Clinical Neurophysiology and Instituto de Investigación Biomédica, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, C/Diego de León 62, 28006 Madrid, Spain.

Brain sciences
|October 25, 2024
PubMed
概括

本研究使用健康成年人的定量EEG (qEEG) 定义了规范性睡眠结构. 研究结果揭示了特定阶段和叶片的大脑波模式,突出了当局部化时消失的性别差异.

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