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Quantifying Infra-slow Dynamics of Spectral Power and Heart Rate in Sleeping Mice
Published on: August 2, 2017
Oscillating circuitries in the sleeping brain
Antoine R Adamantidis1,2, Carolina Gutierrez Herrera3,4, Thomas C Gent3,5
1Centre for Experimental Neurology, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. antoine.adamantidis@dbmr.unibe.ch.
Abstract:
Brain activity during sleep is characterized by circuit-specific oscillations, including slow waves, spindles and theta waves, which are nested in thalamocortical or hippocampal networks. A major challenge is to determine the relationships between these oscillatory activities and the identified networks of sleep-promoting and wake-promoting neurons distributed throughout the brain. Improved understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms that orchestrate sleep-related oscillatory activities, both in time and space, is expected to generate further insight into the delineation of sleep states and their functions.
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