Spontaneous neural activity during human slow wave sleep
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- Thien Thanh Dang-Vu
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- Manuel Schabus
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- Martin Desseilles
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- Geneviève Albouy
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- Mélanie Boly
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- Annabelle Darsaud
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- Steffen Gais
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- Géraldine Rauchs
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- Virginie Sterpenich
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- Gilles Vandewalle
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- Julie Carrier
- Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada H2V 2S9
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- Gustave Moonen
- Department of Neurology, CHU Sart Tilman, B4000 Liège, Belgium; and
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- Evelyne Balteau
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- Christian Degueldre
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- André Luxen
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- Christophe Phillips
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
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- Pierre Maquet
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, B4000 Liège, Belgium;
Abstract
<jats:p>Slow wave sleep (SWS) is associated with spontaneous brain oscillations that are thought to participate in sleep homeostasis and to support the processing of information related to the experiences of the previous awake period. At the cellular level, during SWS, a slow oscillation (<1 Hz) synchronizes firing patterns in large neuronal populations and is reflected on electroencephalography (EEG) recordings as large-amplitude, low-frequency waves. By using simultaneous EEG and event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we characterized the transient changes in brain activity consistently associated with slow waves (>140 μV) and delta waves (75–140 μV) during SWS in 14 non-sleep-deprived normal human volunteers. Significant increases in activity were associated with these waves in several cortical areas, including the inferior frontal, medial prefrontal, precuneus, and posterior cingulate areas. Compared with baseline activity, slow waves are associated with significant activity in the parahippocampal gyrus, cerebellum, and brainstem, whereas delta waves are related to frontal responses. No decrease in activity was observed. This study demonstrates that SWS is not a state of brain quiescence, but rather is an active state during which brain activity is consistently synchronized to the slow oscillation in specific cerebral regions. The partial overlap between the response pattern related to SWS waves and the waking default mode network is consistent with the fascinating hypothesis that brain responses synchronized by the slow oscillation restore microwake-like activity patterns that facilitate neuronal interactions.</jats:p>
Journal
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (39), 15160-15165, 2008-09-30
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1363107370389914624
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- ISSN
- 10916490
- 00278424
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- Data Source
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- Crossref