Neurophysiological correlates

Patients wdth major depressive disorder are reported to have decreased latency to first episode of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep (Kupfer and Foster, 1972). This finding may relate to the hypothesized dysregulation in circadian rhythms found in mood disorders. This interest in circadian rhythms has lead to development of some specific treatments for depression, including sleep deprivation and light therapy. 

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On the basis of neurophysiology on the cat, dog and goat geniculate ganglia, the neurophysiological correlates of sour, sweety, and bitter can be postulated with some degree of... 

Bertler Biochemical and Neurophysiological Correlation of Centrally Acting Drugs (Ed. Trabucchi, Paoletti and Canal) Proc. 2nd Int. Pharmac. Meeting. Pergamon Press, Oxford and London, 1964, p. 51... 

O. Hornykiewicz, In Biochemical and Neurophysiological Correlation of Centrally Acting Drugs (E. Trabucchi, R. Paoletti and N. Canal, eds), p. 58. Macmillan, New York (1964)... 

The first is that the activity of chemically specific cell groups correlates more strongly than any other brain measure with REM sleep vs. waking neurophysiology in animals (and hence, by implication, with dreaming vs. waking consciousness in humans). 

In a double-bhnd, crossover, placebo-controlled study in 12 healthy men of the impact of alprazolam 0.25 and 1.00 mg on aspects of action monitoring, i.e. the monitoring of response conflict and the detection and correction of errors by means of neurophysiological measures, alprazolam significantly reduced the amplitude of the error-related negativity (ERN) and therefore affected brain correlates of error detection (18). It increased reaction... 

A correlation was demonstrated between hair Hg concentrations and neurophysiological effects in a study of an adult population in the Amazon, where gold-mining activities have resulted in fish highly contaminated with Hg (Lebel et al. 1996). In that study population, it is likely that the adult population was also exposed to MeHg in utero. 

Goff, W. R. (1970) Evoked potential correlates of perceptual organisation in man. In Attention in Neurophysiology, C. R. Evans (Ed.), Butterworths, London, pp. 169-193. 

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