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. 2017 Jun 13;9:189. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00189

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Copyright © 2017 Assenza, Capone, di Biase, Ferreri, Florio, Guerra, Marano, Paolucci, Ranieri, Salomone, Tombini, Thut and Di Lazzaro.

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Functional role of brain rhythms in healthy subjects. In healthy participants, brain oscillations are subsumed in specific canonical frequency band, with presumably different functions. Slower rhythms (delta-theta) are associated with higher power spectra generated by the synchronization of a big number of neurons or of networks of neurons. They prevail during sleep, when memory consolidation phenomena occur. The alpha rhythm is the dominant oscillation in the awake state has been associated with inhibitory functions to gate information flow. Beta activity is a rhythm of the motor system (pyramidal and extra-pyramidal) and inhibits the changing of motor activity. Gamma and higher oscillations are resident in intracortical activity synchronizing small group of neurons. See the text of manuscript for more details.