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SUBMITTER: Fattinger S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5593855 | biostudies-other | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Fattinger Sara S Kurth Salome S Ringli Maya M Jenni Oskar G OG Huber Reto R
Scientific reports 20170911 1
Vyazovskiy and colleagues found in rats' multi-unit recordings brief periods of silence (off-states) in local populations of cortical neurons during wakefulness which closely resembled the characteristic off-states during sleep. These off-states became more global and frequent with increasing sleep pressure and were associated with the well-known increase of theta activity under sleep deprivation in the surface EEG. Moreover, the occurrence of such off-states was related to impaired performance. ...[more]