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SUBMITTER: Li CY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2913066 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20090501 5927
Different global patterns of brain activity are associated with distinct arousal and behavioral states of an animal, but how the brain rapidly switches between different states remains unclear. We here report that repetitive high-frequency burst spiking of a single rat cortical neuron could trigger a switch between the cortical states resembling slow-wave and rapid-eye-movement sleep. This is reflected in the switching of the membrane potential of the stimulated neuron from slow UP/DOWN oscillat ...[more]