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SUBMITTER: Low PS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2440357 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Low Philip Steven PS Shank Sylvan S SS Sejnowski Terrence J TJ Margoliash Daniel D
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080625 26
A suite of complex electroencephalographic patterns of sleep occurs in mammals. In sleeping zebra finches, we observed slow wave sleep (SWS), rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, an intermediate sleep (IS) stage commonly occurring in, but not limited to, transitions between other stages, and high amplitude transients reminiscent of K-complexes. SWS density decreased whereas REM density increased throughout the night, with late-night characterized by substantially more REM than SWS, and relatively lon ...[more]