Posts by Laura Lewis, PhD
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Fast fMRI Detects Specific Cascade of Thalamic Activity at Transitions in Behavioral Arousal State
Laura Lewis, PhD, and colleagues identified a stereotyped sequence of activity that unfolds across thalamic nuclei during at the moment of awakening, reinforcing the role of the thalamus in arousal state transitions, and ascertained distinct functional profiles for diverse nuclei within the thalamus.
Biography
Laura Lewis, PhD, is an affiliated faculty member at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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