Systems neuroscience: the slowly sleeping slab and slice
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1Unité de Neurosciences Intégrative et Computationnelles, UPR CNRS 2191-INAF CNRS, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. lyle@cogni.iaf.cnrs-gif.fr
Current Biology : CB
|March 16, 2001
Abstract:
The physiological functions of structured spontaneous activity in the brain, such as the slow oscillations characteristic of certain sleep states, remain unclear, but new studies using brain slices or slabs are starting to shed light on the underlying neural mechanisms.
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