Reticular activating system

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Author: Prof. Josef Parvizi, Stanford University School of Medicine

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Dr. Josef Parvizi accepted the invitation on 15 November 2007 (self-imposed deadline: 15 February 2008).

This article will briefly cover: the anatomical and chemical architecture of the brainstem network known as the reticular activating system.

Suggested by: Dr. Christof Koch, Division of Biology, Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Invited by: Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich, Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia, the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia
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