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SUBMITTER: Reato D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3573006 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Reato Davide D Gasca Fernando F Datta Abhishek A Bikson Marom M Marshall Lisa L Parra Lucas C LC
PLoS computational biology 20130214 2
The sleeping brain exhibits characteristic slow-wave activity which decays over the course of the night. This decay is thought to result from homeostatic synaptic downscaling. Transcranial electrical stimulation can entrain slow-wave oscillations (SWO) in the human electro-encephalogram (EEG). A computational model of the underlying mechanism predicts that firing rates are predominantly increased during stimulation. Assuming that synaptic homeostasis is driven by average firing rates, we expecte ...[more]