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Neuroscience

a large biphasic EEG wave of non-REM sleep, appearing spontaneously or after a stimulus, used in scoring sleep stages.

In neuroscience, K-complex refers to a large biphasic EEG wave of non-REM sleep, appearing spontaneously or after a stimulus, used in scoring sleep stages. This meaning comes from Loomis (1938) in Journal of Neurophysiology.[1]

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References

Loomis, A. L., Harvey, E. N., & Hobart, G. A. (1938). Distribution of Disturbance-patterns in the Human Electroencephalogram, with Special Reference to Sleep. Journal of Neurophysiology, 1(5), 413-430. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.1938.1.5.413

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