wakefulness
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Wakefulness is a daily recurring brain state and state of consciousness in which an individual is conscious and engages in coherent cognitive and behavioral responses to the external world.
Research
42,003 papers- Sleep-Wake Neurochemistry.Sleep medicine clinics · 2022
- The pharmacology of wakefulness.Metabolism: clinical and experimental · 2006
- Evolution of wakefulness, sleep and hibernation: from reptiles to mammals.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2010
- Connectivity dynamics from wakefulness to sleep.NeuroImage · 2020
- Nocturnal Wakefulness and Suicide Risk in the Australian Population.The Journal of clinical psychiatry · 2022
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- partially coincident with
- alertness
- opposite of
- somnolence
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Effects upon the brain
- Maintenance by the brain
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Wakefulness is a daily recurring brain state and state of consciousness in which an individual is conscious and engages in coherent cognitive and behavioral responses to the external world.
Being awake is the opposite of being asleep, in which most external inputs to the brain are excluded from neural processing.
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