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Nature Neuroscience 11, 991 - 993 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn0908-991

Finding coherence in spontaneous oscillations

Patrick J Drew1, Jeff H Duyn2, Eugene Golanov3 & David Kleinfeld1

  1. Patrick J Drew and David Kleinfeld are in the Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, Califorina 92093-0374, USA.
  2. Jeff H Duyn is a member of the Advanced MRI Section, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
  3. Eugene Golanov is in the Extramural Research Program, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
    e-mail: dk@physics.ucsd.edu.


Spontaneous ultra-slow oscillations in brain signals are ubiquitous, although their source and function remain unknown. A new study now reports that this activity is correlated between functionally related areas across hemispheres in humans.

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