The immune system and the nervous system are connected in a dynamic network that has important implications for psychology. First, if analyzed in functional terms, the immune system and the nervous system are not distinctly separated: The immune system ...
The EEG slow-wave activity (SWA) organization in temporal cycles with an exponential trend of attenuation over the wakefulness-sleep cycle is thought to reflect synaptic homeostasis. Ten subjects in a vegetative state as a result of traumatic brain injury ...
Measures of heart rate variability (HRV) are major indices of the sympathovagal balance in cardiovascular research. These measures are thought to reflect complex patterns of brain activation as well and HRV is now emerging as a descriptor thought to ...