Awakened by a sleeping pill

Oluwaseun Akeju; Emery N Brown

doi:10.7554/eLife.01658

eLife (Nov 2013)

Awakened by a sleeping pill

Oluwaseun Akeju,
Emery N Brown

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Oluwaseun Akeju: Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States
Emery N Brown: Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01658
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2

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Characteristic changes in brain activity accompany the paradoxical increase in alertness observed in some patients with severe brain injury when they are treated with the sleeping pill zolpidem.

Published in eLife

ISSN: 2050-084X (Online)
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine; Science: Biology (General)
Website: https://elifesciences.org

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