title: A chain of suprasegmental neuroscillatory circuits: a human brain theory.
abstract: A novel electrophysiological model of human brain electrical activity and functions is proposed. It views the human central nervous system as a chain of three suprasegmental neuroscillatory circuits, namely prosencephalic, mesencephalic, and rhombencephalic. Each circuit consists of a network of periventricular paracrine core neurons, efferent motor plate neurons, and sensory-associative alar plate neurons mediating suprasegmental electroclinical phenomena. The model is based on the exponential analyses of well established human data from the fields of electroencephalography, evoked potentials, wake-sleep spectrum, stages of anesthesia, and a variety of human tremors. This neuroscillatory chain is functionally analogous to the chain of cardiac pacemaker neurons.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville.
authors.forename: V D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Deshmukh
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D012640:Seizures / Q000503:physiopathology; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology; D014202:Tremor / Q000503:physiopathology