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Kawai M, Schneider LD, Linkovski O, Jordan JT, Karna R, Pirog S, Cotto I, Buck C, Giardino WJ, O'Hara R. High-Resolution Spectral Sleep Analysis Reveals a Novel Association Between Slow Oscillations and Memory Retention in Elderly Adults. Front Aging Neurosci 2021; 12:540424. [PMID: 33505299 PMCID: PMC7829345 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2020.540424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Objective: In recognition of the mixed associations between traditionally scored slow wave sleep and memory, we sought to explore the relationships between slow wave sleep, electroencephalographic (EEG) power spectra during sleep and overnight verbal memory retention in older adults. Design, Setting, Participants, and Measurements: Participants were 101 adults without dementia (52% female, mean age 70.3 years). Delayed verbal memory was first tested in the evening prior to overnight polysomnography (PSG). The following morning, subjects were asked to recall as many items as possible from the same List (overnight memory retention; OMR). Partial correlation analyses examined the associations of delayed verbal memory and OMR with slow wave sleep (SWS) and two physiologic EEG slow wave activity (SWA) power spectral bands (0.5-1 Hz slow oscillations vs. 1-4 Hz delta activity). Results: In subjects displaying SWS, SWS was associated with enhanced delayed verbal memory, but not with OMR. Interestingly, among participants that did not show SWS, OMR was significantly associated with a higher slow oscillation relative power, during NREM sleep in the first ultradian cycle, with medium effect size. Conclusions: These findings suggest a complex relationship between SWS and memory and illustrate that even in the absence of scorable SWS, older adults demonstrate substantial slow wave activity. Further, these slow oscillations (0.5-1 Hz), in the first ultradian cycle, are positively associated with OMR, but only in those without SWS. Our findings raise the possibility that precise features of slow wave activity play key roles in maintaining memory function in healthy aging. Further, our results underscore that conventional methods of sleep evaluation may not be sufficiently sensitive to detect associations between SWA and memory in older adults.
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- Makoto Kawai
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
- Sierra Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Centers (MIRECC), VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
- Sierra Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Centers (MIRECC), VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
- Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
- Department of Psychology, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
- Sierra Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Centers (MIRECC), VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, United States
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Yamazaki R, Toda H, Libourel PA, Hayashi Y, Vogt KE, Sakurai T. Evolutionary Origin of Distinct NREM and REM Sleep. Front Psychol 2021; 11:567618. [PMID: 33381062 PMCID: PMC7767968 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.567618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2020] [Accepted: 11/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Sleep is mandatory in most animals that have the nervous system and is universally observed in model organisms ranging from the nematodes, zebrafish, to mammals. However, it is unclear whether different sleep states fulfill common functions and are driven by shared mechanisms in these different animal species. Mammals and birds exhibit two obviously distinct states of sleep, i.e., non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, but it is unknown why sleep should be so segregated. Studying sleep in other animal models might give us clues that help solve this puzzle. Recent studies suggest that REM sleep, or ancestral forms of REM sleep might be found in non-mammalian or -avian species such as reptiles. These observations suggest that REM sleep and NREM sleep evolved earlier than previously thought. In this review, we discuss the evolutionary origin of the distinct REM/NREM sleep states to gain insight into the mechanistic and functional reason for these two different types of sleep.
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- Risa Yamazaki
- CNRS UMR 5292, INSERM U1028, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Bron, France
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- International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- CNRS UMR 5292, INSERM U1028, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Bron, France
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- International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.,Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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Harris SS, Schwerd-Kleine T, Lee BI, Busche MA. The Reciprocal Interaction Between Sleep and Alzheimer's Disease. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2021; 1344:169-188. [PMID: 34773232 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81147-1_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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It is becoming increasingly recognized that patients with a variety of neurodegenerative diseases exhibit disordered sleep/wake patterns. While sleep impairments have typically been thought of as sequelae of underlying neurodegenerative processes in sleep-wake cycle regulating brain regions, including the brainstem, hypothalamus, and basal forebrain, emerging evidence now indicates that sleep deficits may also act as pathophysiological drivers of brain-wide disease progression. Specifically, recent work has indicated that impaired sleep can impact on neuronal activity, brain clearance mechanisms, pathological build-up of proteins, and inflammation. Altered sleep patterns may therefore be novel (potentially reversible) dynamic functional markers of proteinopathies and modifiable targets for early therapeutic intervention using non-invasive stimulation and behavioral techniques. Here we highlight research describing a potentially reciprocal interaction between impaired sleep and circadian patterns and the accumulation of pathological signs and features in Alzheimer's disease, the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease in the elderly.
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- UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK
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Huo S, Tian C, Zheng M, Guan S, Zhou C, Liu Z. Spatial multi-scaled chimera states of cerebral cortex network and its inherent structure-dynamics relationship in human brain. Natl Sci Rev 2021; 8:nwaa125. [PMID: 34691552 PMCID: PMC8288421 DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaa125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2019] [Revised: 04/01/2020] [Accepted: 05/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Human cerebral cortex displays various dynamics patterns under different states, however the mechanism how such diverse patterns can be supported by the underlying brain network is still not well understood. Human brain has a unique network structure with different regions of interesting to perform cognitive tasks. Using coupled neural mass oscillators on human cortical network and paying attention to both global and local regions, we observe a new feature of chimera states with multiple spatial scales and a positive correlation between the synchronization preference of local region and the degree of symmetry of the connectivity of the region in the network. Further, we use the concept of effective symmetry in the network to build structural and dynamical hierarchical trees and find close matching between them. These results help to explain the multiple brain rhythms observed in experiments and suggest a generic principle for complex brain network as a structure substrate to support diverse functional patterns.
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- Siyu Huo
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy and Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy and Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
- School of Data Science, Tongren University, Tongren 554300, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy and Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy and Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- Department of Physics, Centre for Nonlinear Studies and Beijing-Hong Kong-Singapore Joint Centre for Nonlinear and Complex Systems (Hong Kong), Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
- Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy and Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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Hogan J, Sun H, Paixao L, Westmeijer M, Sikka P, Jin J, Tesh R, Cardoso M, Cash SS, Akeju O, Thomas R, Westover MB. Night-to-night variability of sleep electroencephalography-based brain age measurements. Clin Neurophysiol 2021; 132:1-12. [PMID: 33248430 PMCID: PMC7855943 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2020.09.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Revised: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Brain Age Index (BAI), calculated from sleep electroencephalography (EEG), has been proposed as a biomarker of brain health. This study quantifies night-to-night variability of BAI and establishes probability thresholds for inferring underlying brain pathology based on a patient's BAI. METHODS 86 patients with multiple nights of consecutive EEG recordings were selected from Epilepsy Monitoring Unit patients whose EEGs reported as within normal limits. While EEGs with epileptiform activity were excluded, the majority of patients included in the study had a diagnosis of chronic epilepsy. BAI was calculated for each 12-hour segment of patient data using a previously established algorithm, and the night-to-night variability in BAI was measured. RESULTS The within-patient night-to-night standard deviation in BAI was 7.5 years. Estimates of BAI derived by averaging over 2, 3, and 4 nights had standard deviations of 4.7, 3.7, and 3.0 years, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Averaging BAI over n nights reduces night-to-night variability of BAI by a factor of n, rendering BAI a more suitable biomarker of brain health at the individual level. A brain age risk lookup table of results provides thresholds above which a patient has a high probability of excess BAI. SIGNIFICANCE With increasing ease of EEG acquisition, including wearable technology, BAI has the potential to track brain health and detect deviations from normal physiologic function. The measure of night-to-night variability and how this is reduced by averaging across multiple nights provides a basis for using BAI in patients' homes to identify patients who should undergo further investigation or monitoring.
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- Jacob Hogan
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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Sanda P, Malerba P, Jiang X, Krishnan GP, Gonzalez-Martinez J, Halgren E, Bazhenov M. Bidirectional Interaction of Hippocampal Ripples and Cortical Slow Waves Leads to Coordinated Spiking Activity During NREM Sleep. Cereb Cortex 2021; 31:324-340. [PMID: 32995860 PMCID: PMC8179633 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2019] [Revised: 06/19/2020] [Accepted: 07/16/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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The dialogue between cortex and hippocampus is known to be crucial for sleep-dependent memory consolidation. During slow wave sleep, memory replay depends on slow oscillation (SO) and spindles in the (neo)cortex and sharp wave-ripples (SWRs) in the hippocampus. The mechanisms underlying interaction of these rhythms are poorly understood. We examined the interaction between cortical SO and hippocampal SWRs in a model of the hippocampo-cortico-thalamic network and compared the results with human intracranial recordings during sleep. We observed that ripple occurrence peaked following the onset of an Up-state of SO and that cortical input to hippocampus was crucial to maintain this relationship. A small fraction of ripples occurred during the Down-state and controlled initiation of the next Up-state. We observed that the effect of ripple depends on its precise timing, which supports the idea that ripples occurring at different phases of SO might serve different functions, particularly in the context of encoding the new and reactivation of the old memories during memory consolidation. The study revealed complex bidirectional interaction of SWRs and SO in which early hippocampal ripples influence transitions to Up-state, while cortical Up-states control occurrence of the later ripples, which in turn influence transition to Down-state.
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- Pavel Sanda
- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 18207, Czech Republic
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH 43215, USA
- Department of Pediatrics and Biophysics Graduate Program, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43215, USA
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- Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093, USA
- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB T1K4G9, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093, USA
- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
- Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093, USA
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Djonlagic I, Mariani S, Fitzpatrick AL, Van Der Klei VMGTH, Johnson DA, Wood AC, Seeman T, Nguyen HT, Prerau MJ, Luchsinger JA, Dzierzewski JM, Rapp SR, Tranah GJ, Yaffe K, Burdick KE, Stone KL, Redline S, Purcell SM. Macro and micro sleep architecture and cognitive performance in older adults. Nat Hum Behav 2021; 5:123-145. [PMID: 33199858 PMCID: PMC9881675 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-020-00964-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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We sought to determine which facets of sleep neurophysiology were most strongly linked to cognitive performance in 3,819 older adults from two independent cohorts, using whole-night electroencephalography. From over 150 objective sleep metrics, we identified 23 that predicted cognitive performance, and processing speed in particular, with effects that were broadly independent of gross changes in sleep quality and quantity. These metrics included rapid eye movement duration, features of the electroencephalography power spectra derived from multivariate analysis, and spindle and slow oscillation morphology and coupling. These metrics were further embedded within broader associative networks linking sleep with aging and cardiometabolic disease: individuals who, compared with similarly aged peers, had better cognitive performance tended to have profiles of sleep metrics more often seen in younger, healthier individuals. Taken together, our results point to multiple facets of sleep neurophysiology that track coherently with underlying, age-dependent determinants of cognitive and physical health trajectories in older adults.
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- Ina Djonlagic
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
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Bergel A, Tiran E, Deffieux T, Demené C, Tanter M, Cohen I. Adaptive modulation of brain hemodynamics across stereotyped running episodes. Nat Commun 2020; 11:6193. [PMID: 33273463 PMCID: PMC7713412 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19948-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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During locomotion, theta and gamma rhythms are essential to ensure timely communication between brain structures. However, their metabolic cost and contribution to neuroimaging signals remain elusive. To finely characterize neurovascular interactions during locomotion, we simultaneously recorded mesoscale brain hemodynamics using functional ultrasound (fUS) and local field potentials (LFP) in numerous brain structures of freely-running overtrained rats. Locomotion events were reliably followed by a surge in blood flow in a sequence involving the retrosplenial cortex, dorsal thalamus, dentate gyrus and CA regions successively, with delays ranging from 0.8 to 1.6 seconds after peak speed. Conversely, primary motor cortex was suppressed and subsequently recruited during reward uptake. Surprisingly, brain hemodynamics were strongly modulated across trials within the same recording session; cortical blood flow sharply decreased after 10-20 runs, while hippocampal responses strongly and linearly increased, particularly in the CA regions. This effect occurred while running speed and theta activity remained constant and was accompanied by an increase in the power of hippocampal, but not cortical, high-frequency oscillations (100-150 Hz). Our findings reveal distinct vascular subnetworks modulated across fast and slow timescales and suggest strong hemodynamic adaptation, despite the repetition of a stereotyped behavior.
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- Antoine Bergel
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INSERM, Institut de Biologie Paris Seine-Neuroscience, 75005, Paris, France.
- Physique pour la Médecine Paris, INSERM U1273, ESPCI Paris, CNRS FRE 2031, PSL Université Recherche, Paris, France.
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- Physique pour la Médecine Paris, INSERM U1273, ESPCI Paris, CNRS FRE 2031, PSL Université Recherche, Paris, France
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- Physique pour la Médecine Paris, INSERM U1273, ESPCI Paris, CNRS FRE 2031, PSL Université Recherche, Paris, France
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- Physique pour la Médecine Paris, INSERM U1273, ESPCI Paris, CNRS FRE 2031, PSL Université Recherche, Paris, France
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- Physique pour la Médecine Paris, INSERM U1273, ESPCI Paris, CNRS FRE 2031, PSL Université Recherche, Paris, France.
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INSERM, Institut de Biologie Paris Seine-Neuroscience, 75005, Paris, France.
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Oyanedel CN, Durán E, Niethard N, Inostroza M, Born J. Temporal associations between sleep slow oscillations, spindles and ripples. Eur J Neurosci 2020; 52:4762-4778. [PMID: 32654249 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The systems consolidation of memory during slow-wave sleep (SWS) is thought to rely on a dialogue between hippocampus and neocortex that is regulated by an interaction between neocortical slow oscillations (SOs), thalamic spindles and hippocampal ripples. Here, we examined the occurrence rates of and the temporal relationships between these oscillatory events in rats, to identify the possible direction of interaction between these events under natural conditions. To facilitate comparisons with findings in humans, we combined frontal and parietal surface EEG with local field potential (LFP) recordings in medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and dorsal hippocampus (dHC). Consistent with a top-down driving influence, EEG SO upstates were associated with an increase in spindles and hippocampal ripples. This increase was missing in SO upstates identified in mPFC recordings. Ripples in dHC recordings always followed the onset of spindles consistent with spindles timing ripple occurrence. Comparing ripple activity during co-occurring SO-spindle events with that during isolated SOs or spindles, suggested that ripple dynamics during SO-spindle events are mainly determined by the spindle, with only the SO downstate providing a global inhibitory signal to both thalamus and hippocampus. As to bottom-up influences, we found an increase in hippocampal ripples ~200 ms before the SO downstate, but no similar increase of spindles preceding SO downstates. Overall, the temporal pattern is consistent with a loop-like scenario where, top-down, SOs can trigger thalamic spindles which, in turn, regulate the occurrence of hippocampal ripples. Ripples, bottom-up, and independent from thalamic spindles, can contribute to the emergence of neocortical SOs.
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- Carlos N Oyanedel
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Graduate School of Neural & Behavioural Science, International Max Planck Research School, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Graduate School of Neural & Behavioural Science, International Max Planck Research School, Tübingen, Germany
- Laboratorio de Circuitos Neuronales, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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Beed P, de Filippo R, Holman C, Johenning FW, Leibold C, Caputi A, Monyer H, Schmitz D. Layer 3 Pyramidal Cells in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex Orchestrate Up-Down States and Entrain the Deep Layers Differentially. Cell Rep 2020; 33:108470. [DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2018] [Revised: 06/26/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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O'Reilly C, Elsabbagh M. Intracranial recordings reveal ubiquitous in-phase and in-antiphase functional connectivity between homotopic brain regions in humans. J Neurosci Res 2020; 99:887-897. [PMID: 33190333 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.24748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Revised: 09/26/2020] [Accepted: 10/18/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Whether neuronal populations exhibit zero-lag (in-phase or in-antiphase) functional connectivity is a fundamental question when conceptualizing communication between cell assemblies. It also has profound implications on how we assess such interactions. Given that the brain is a delayed network due to the finite conduction velocity of the electrical impulses traveling across its fibers, the existence of long-distance zero-lag functional connectivity may be considered improbable. However, in this study, using human intracranial recordings we demonstrate that most interhemispheric connectivity between homotopic cerebral regions is zero-lagged and that this type of connectivity is ubiquitous. Volume conduction can be safely discarded as a confounding factor since it is known to drop almost completely within short interelectrode distances (<20 mm) in intracranial recordings. This finding should guide future electrophysiological connectivity studies and highlight the importance of considering the role of zero-lag connectivity in our understanding of communication between cell assemblies.
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- Christian O'Reilly
- Azrieli Centre for Autism Research, Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Azrieli Centre for Autism Research, Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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van den Munckhof B, Gefferie SR, van Noort SAM, van Teeseling HC, Schijvens MP, Smit W, Teunissen NW, Plate JDJ, Huiskamp GJM, Leijten FSS, Braun KPJ, Jansen FE, Bölsterli BK. Sleep slow-wave homeostasis and cognitive functioning in children with electrical status epilepticus in sleep. Sleep 2020; 43:5831237. [PMID: 32374855 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsaa088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2019] [Revised: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVES Encephalopathy with electrical status epilepticus in sleep (ESES) is characterized by non-rapid eye movement (non-REM)-sleep-induced epileptiform activity and acquired cognitive deficits. The synaptic homeostasis hypothesis describes the process of daytime synaptic potentiation balanced by synaptic downscaling in non-REM-sleep and is considered crucial to retain an efficient cortical network. We aimed to study the overnight decline of slow waves, an indirect marker of synaptic downscaling, in patients with ESES and explore whether altered downscaling relates to neurodevelopmental and behavioral problems. METHODS Retrospective study of patients with ESES with at least one whole-night electroencephalogram (EEG) and neuropsychological assessment (NPA) within 4 months. Slow waves in the first and last hour of non-REM-sleep were analyzed. Differences in slow-wave slope (SWS) and overnight slope course between the epileptic focus and non-focus electrodes and relations to neurodevelopment and behavior were analyzed. RESULTS A total of 29 patients with 44 EEG ~ NPA combinations were included. Mean SWS decreased from 357 to 327 µV/s (-8%, p < 0.001) across the night and the overnight decrease was less pronounced in epileptic focus than in non-focus electrodes (-5.6% vs. -8.7%, p = 0.003). We found no relation between SWS and neurodevelopmental test results in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. Patients with behavioral problems showed less SWS decline than patients without and the difference was most striking in the epileptic focus (-0.9% vs. -8.8%, p = 0.006). CONCLUSIONS Slow-wave homeostasis-a marker of synaptic homeostasis-is disturbed by epileptiform activity in ESES. Behavioral problems, but not neurodevelopmental test results, were related to severity of this disturbance.
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- Bart van den Munckhof
- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Neuropsychology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Clinical Neurophysiology, Department of Neurology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Turning the Stimulus On and Off Changes the Direction of α Traveling Waves. eNeuro 2020; 7:ENEURO.0218-20.2020. [PMID: 33168617 PMCID: PMC7688302 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0218-20.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2020] [Revised: 10/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Traveling waves have been studied to characterize the complex spatiotemporal dynamics of the brain. Several studies have suggested that the propagation direction of α traveling waves can be task dependent. For example, a recent electroencephalography (EEG) study from our group found that forward waves (i.e., occipital to frontal, FW waves) were observed during visual processing, whereas backward waves (i.e., frontal to occipital, BW waves) mostly occurred in the absence of sensory input. These EEG recordings, however, were obtained from different experimental sessions and different groups of subjects. To further examine how the waves’ direction changes between task conditions, 13 human participants were tested on a target detection task while EEG signals were recorded simultaneously. We alternated visual stimulation (5-s display of visual luminance sequences) and resting state (5 s of black screen) within each single trial, allowing us to monitor the moment-to-moment progression of traveling waves. As expected, the direction of α waves was closely linked with task conditions. First, FW waves from occipital to frontal regions, absent during rest, emerged as a result of visual processing, while BW waves in the opposite direction dominated in the absence of visual inputs, and were reduced (but not eliminated) by external visual inputs. Second, during visual stimulation (but not rest), both waves coexisted on average, but were negatively correlated. In summary, we conclude that the functional role of α traveling waves is closely related with their propagating direction, with stimulus-evoked FW waves supporting visual processing and spontaneous BW waves involved more in top-down control.
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Facchin L, Schöne C, Mensen A, Bandarabadi M, Pilotto F, Saxena S, Libourel PA, Bassetti CLA, Adamantidis AR. Slow Waves Promote Sleep-Dependent Plasticity and Functional Recovery after Stroke. J Neurosci 2020; 40:8637-8651. [PMID: 33087472 PMCID: PMC7643301 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0373-20.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Revised: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 09/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Functional recovery after stroke is associated with a remapping of neural circuits. This reorganization is often associated with low-frequency, high-amplitude oscillations in the peri-infarct zone in both rodents and humans. These oscillations are reminiscent of sleep slow waves (SW) and suggestive of a role for sleep in brain plasticity that occur during stroke recovery; however, direct evidence is missing. Using a stroke model in male mice, we showed that stroke was followed by a transient increase in NREM sleep accompanied by reduced amplitude and slope of ipsilateral NREM sleep SW. We next used 5 ms optical activation of Channelrhodopsin 2-expressing pyramidal neurons, or 200 ms silencing of Archeorhodopsin T-expressing pyramidal neurons, to generate local cortical UP, or DOWN, states, respectively, both sharing similarities with spontaneous NREM SW in freely moving mice. Importantly, we found that single optogenetically evoked SW (SWopto) in the peri-infarct zone, randomly distributed during sleep, significantly improved fine motor movements of the limb corresponding to the sensorimotor stroke lesion site compared with spontaneous recovery and control conditions, while motor strength remained unchanged. In contrast, SWopto during wakefulness had no effect. Furthermore, chronic SWopto during sleep were associated with local axonal sprouting as revealed by the increase of anatomic presynaptic and postsynaptic markers in the peri-infarct zone and corresponding contralesional areas to cortical circuit reorganization during stroke recovery. These results support a role for sleep SW in cortical circuit plasticity and sensorimotor recovery after stroke and provide a clinically relevant framework for rehabilitation strategies using neuromodulation during sleep.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Brain stroke is one of the leading causes of death and major disabilities in the elderly worldwide. A better understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying spontaneous brain plasticity after stroke, together with an optimization of rehabilitative strategies, are essential to improve stroke treatments. Here, we investigate the role of optogenetically induced sleep slow waves in an animal model of ischemic stroke and identify sleep as a window for poststroke intervention that promotes neuroplasticity and facilitates sensorimotor recovery.
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- Laura Facchin
- Centre for Experimental Neurology, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital, University of Bern, 3010, Bern, Switzerland
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- Centre for Experimental Neurology, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital, University of Bern, 3010, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, 3010, Switzerland
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- Centre for Experimental Neurology, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital, University of Bern, 3010, Bern, Switzerland
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- Centre for Experimental Neurology, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital, University of Bern, 3010, Bern, Switzerland
- Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, 3010, Switzerland
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- Centre for Experimental Neurology, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital, University of Bern, 3010, Bern, Switzerland
- Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, 3010, Switzerland
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- Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, University of Lyon, Bron, 69500, France
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- Centre for Experimental Neurology, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital, University of Bern, 3010, Bern, Switzerland
- Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, 3010, Switzerland
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- Centre for Experimental Neurology, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital, University of Bern, 3010, Bern, Switzerland
- Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, 3010, Switzerland
- Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, 3010, Switzerland
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Iliopoulos F, Taskin B, Villringer A, Nierhaus T. Imperceptible Somatosensory Single Pulse and Pulse Train Stimulation Oppositely Modulate Mu Rhythm Activity and Perceptual Performance. Cereb Cortex 2020; 30:6284-6295. [PMID: 32776096 PMCID: PMC7609940 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2019] [Revised: 04/27/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Subliminal stimulation alters conscious perception – a potential mechanism is the modulation of cortical background rhythms especially in the alpha range. Here, in the human somatosensory domain, we assessed effects of subthreshold (imperceptible) electrical finger nerve stimulation – either presented as single pulses or as brief (1 s) 7 Hz pulse trains—on mu-alpha rhythm and perceptual performance. In electroencephalography, subthreshold single pulses transiently (~150–350 ms poststimulus) increased mu activity (event-related synchronization), while, interestingly, subthreshold trains led to prolonged (>1 s) mu desynchronization. In psychophysics, detection of near-threshold target stimuli was consistently reduced when presented together with subthreshold trains (at three delays), whereas for targets paired with subthreshold single pulses detection remained unaffected (30 and 180 ms) or was even elevated (60 ms). Though both imperceptible, single pulses and pulse trains exerted opposite effects on neural signaling and perception. We suggest that the common neural basis is preferential activation of cortical inhibitory interneurons. While the inhibitory impact of a subthreshold single pulse (reflected by mu synchronization) is not psychophysically detectable—rather perception may be facilitated—repetition of the same subthreshold pulse shifts the excitation-inhibition balance toward an inhibitory cortical state (reflected by perceptual impediment) accompanied by mu desynchronization. These differential findings provide novel insights on the notion of alpha activity mediating functional inhibition.
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- Fivos Iliopoulos
- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.,MindBrainBody Institute, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Humboldt-University Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany.,International Max Planck Research School LIFE, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.,MindBrainBody Institute, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Humboldt-University Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.,MindBrainBody Institute, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Humboldt-University Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Education and Psychology, Neurocomputation and Neuroimaging Unit, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Mullins AE, Kam K, Parekh A, Bubu OM, Osorio RS, Varga AW. Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Its Treatment in Aging: Effects on Alzheimer's disease Biomarkers, Cognition, Brain Structure and Neurophysiology. Neurobiol Dis 2020; 145:105054. [PMID: 32860945 PMCID: PMC7572873 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2020.105054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2019] [Revised: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 08/18/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Here we review the impact of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) on biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis, neuroanatomy, cognition and neurophysiology, and present the research investigating the effects of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy. OSA is associated with an increase in AD markers amyloid-β and tau measured in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), by Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and in blood serum. There is some evidence suggesting CPAP therapy normalizes AD biomarkers in CSF but since mechanisms for amyloid-β and tau production/clearance in humans are not completely understood, these findings remain preliminary. Deficits in the cognitive domains of attention, vigilance, memory and executive functioning are observed in OSA patients with the magnitude of impairment appearing stronger in younger people from clinical settings than in older community samples. Cognition improves with varying degrees after CPAP use, with the greatest effect seen for attention in middle age adults with more severe OSA and sleepiness. Paradigms in which encoding and retrieval of information are separated by periods of sleep with or without OSA have been done only rarely, but perhaps offer a better chance to understand cognitive effects of OSA than isolated daytime testing. In cognitively normal individuals, changes in EEG microstructure during sleep, particularly slow oscillations and spindles, are associated with biomarkers of AD, and measures of cognition and memory. Similar changes in EEG activity are reported in AD and OSA, such as "EEG slowing" during wake and REM sleep, and a degradation of NREM EEG microstructure. There is evidence that CPAP therapy partially reverses these changes but large longitudinal studies demonstrating this are lacking. A diagnostic definition of OSA relying solely on the Apnea Hypopnea Index (AHI) does not assist in understanding the high degree of inter-individual variation in daytime impairments related to OSA or response to CPAP therapy. We conclude by discussing conceptual challenges to a clinical trial of OSA treatment for AD prevention, including inclusion criteria for age, OSA severity, and associated symptoms, the need for a potentially long trial, defining relevant primary outcomes, and which treatments to target to optimize treatment adherence.
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- Anna E Mullins
- Mount Sinai Integrative Sleep Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Mount Sinai Integrative Sleep Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Mount Sinai Integrative Sleep Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Center for Brain Health, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Center for Brain Health, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Mount Sinai Integrative Sleep Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
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Canavan SV, Margoliash D. Budgerigars have complex sleep structure similar to that of mammals. PLoS Biol 2020; 18:e3000929. [PMID: 33201883 PMCID: PMC7707536 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2020] [Revised: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 10/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Birds and mammals share specialized forms of sleep including slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement sleep (REM), raising the question of why and how specialized sleep evolved. Extensive prior studies concluded that avian sleep lacked many features characteristic of mammalian sleep, and therefore that specialized sleep must have evolved independently in birds and mammals. This has been challenged by evidence of more complex sleep in multiple songbird species. To extend this analysis beyond songbirds, we examined a species of parrot, the sister taxon to songbirds. We implanted adult budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) with electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrooculogram (EOG) electrodes to evaluate sleep architecture, and video monitored birds during sleep. Sleep was scored with manual and automated techniques, including automated detection of slow waves and eye movements. This can help define a new standard for how to score sleep in birds. Budgerigars exhibited consolidated sleep, a pattern also observed in songbirds, and many mammalian species, including humans. We found that REM constituted 26.5% of total sleep, comparable to humans and an order of magnitude greater than previously reported. Although we observed no spindles, we found a clear state of intermediate sleep (IS) similar to non-REM (NREM) stage 2. Across the night, SWS decreased and REM increased, as observed in mammals and songbirds. Slow wave activity (SWA) fluctuated with a 29-min ultradian rhythm, indicating a tendency to move systematically through sleep states as observed in other species with consolidated sleep. These results are at variance with numerous older sleep studies, including for budgerigars. Here, we demonstrated that lighting conditions used in the prior budgerigar study-and commonly used in older bird studies-dramatically disrupted budgerigar sleep structure, explaining the prior results. Thus, it is likely that more complex sleep has been overlooked in a broad range of bird species. The similarities in sleep architecture observed in mammals, songbirds, and now budgerigars, alongside recent work in reptiles and basal birds, provide support for the hypothesis that a common amniote ancestor possessed the precursors that gave rise to REM and SWS at one or more loci in the parallel evolution of sleep in higher vertebrates. We discuss this hypothesis in terms of the common plan of forebrain organization shared by reptiles, birds, and mammals.
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- Sofija V. Canavan
- Committee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Committee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Comparative Perspectives that Challenge Brain Warming as the Primary Function of REM Sleep. iScience 2020; 23:101696. [PMID: 33196022 PMCID: PMC7644584 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2020] [Revised: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 10/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a paradoxical state of wake-like brain activity occurring after non-REM (NREM) sleep in mammals and birds. In mammals, brain cooling during NREM sleep is followed by warming during REM sleep, potentially preparing the brain to perform adaptively upon awakening. If brain warming is the primary function of REM sleep, then it should occur in other animals with similar states. We measured cortical temperature in pigeons and bearded dragons, lizards that exhibit NREM-like sleep and REM-like sleep with brain activity resembling wakefulness. In pigeons, cortical temperature decreased during NREM sleep and increased during REM sleep. However, brain temperature did not increase when dragons switched from NREM-like to REM-like sleep. Our findings indicate that brain warming is not a universal outcome of sleep states characterized by wake-like activity, challenging the hypothesis that their primary function is to warm the brain in preparation for wakefulness. In many mammals, the brain cools during non-REM sleep and warms during REM sleep Pigeons exhibit similar changes in cortical temperature during non-REM and REM sleep Brain temperature does not increase during REM-like sleep in bearded dragon lizards Brain warming is not a universal outcome of sleep states with wake-like brain activity
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Lechat B, Hansen K, Catcheside P, Zajamsek B. Beyond K-complex binary scoring during sleep: probabilistic classification using deep learning. Sleep 2020; 43:zsaa077. [PMID: 32301485 PMCID: PMC7751135 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsaa077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2019] [Revised: 03/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVES K-complexes (KCs) are a recognized electroencephalography marker of sensory processing and a defining feature of sleep stage 2. KC frequency and morphology may also be reflective of sleep quality, aging, and a range of sleep and sensory processing deficits. However, manual scoring of K-complexes is impractical, time-consuming, and thus costly and currently not well-standardized. Although automated KC detection methods have been developed, performance and uptake remain limited. METHODS The proposed algorithm is based on a deep neural network and Gaussian process, which gives the input waveform a probability of being a KC ranging from 0% to 100%. The algorithm was trained on half a million synthetic KCs derived from manually scored sleep stage 2 KCs from the Montreal Archive of Sleep Study containing 19 healthy young participants. Algorithm performance was subsequently assessed on 700 independent recordings from the Cleveland Family Study using sleep stages 2 and 3 data. RESULTS The developed algorithm showed an F1 score (a measure of binary classification accuracy) of 0.78 and thus outperforms currently available KC scoring algorithms with F1 = 0.2-0.6. The probabilistic approach also captured expected variability in KC shape and amplitude within individuals and across age groups. CONCLUSIONS An automated probabilistic KC classification is well suited and effective for systematic KC detection for a more in-depth exploration of potential relationships between KCs during sleep and clinical outcomes such as health impacts and daytime symptomatology.
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- Bastien Lechat
- Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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- Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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- Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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- Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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Sleep is evolutionarily conserved across all species, and impaired sleep is a common trait of the diseased brain. Sleep quality decreases as we age, and disruption of the regular sleep architecture is a frequent antecedent to the onset of dementia in neurodegenerative diseases. The glymphatic system, which clears the brain of protein waste products, is mostly active during sleep. Yet the glymphatic system degrades with age, suggesting a causal relationship between sleep disturbance and symptomatic progression in the neurodegenerative dementias. The ties that bind sleep, aging, glymphatic clearance, and protein aggregation have shed new light on the pathogenesis of a broad range of neurodegenerative diseases, for which glymphatic failure may constitute a therapeutically targetable final common pathway.
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- Maiken Nedergaard
- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Center for Translational Neuromedicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Dasilva M, Camassa A, Navarro-Guzman A, Pazienti A, Perez-Mendez L, Zamora-López G, Mattia M, Sanchez-Vives MV. Modulation of cortical slow oscillations and complexity across anesthesia levels. Neuroimage 2020; 224:117415. [PMID: 33011419 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2019] [Revised: 08/15/2020] [Accepted: 09/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The ability of different groups of cortical neurons to engage in causal interactions that are at once differentiated and integrated results in complex dynamic patterns. Complexity is low during periods of unconsciousness (deep sleep, anesthesia, unresponsive wakefulness syndrome) in which the brain tends to generate a stereotypical pattern consisting of alternating active and silent periods of neural activity-slow oscillations- and is high during wakefulness. But how is cortical complexity built up? Is it a continuum? An open question is whether cortical complexity can vary within the same brain state. Here we recorded with 32-channel multielectrode arrays from the cortical surface of the mouse and used both spontaneous dynamics (wave propagation entropy and functional complexity) and a perturbational approach (a variation of the perturbation complexity index) to measure complexity at different anesthesia levels. Variations in anesthesia level within the bistable regime of slow oscillations (0.1-1.5 Hz) resulted in a modulation of the slow oscillation frequency. Both perturbational and spontaneous complexity increased with decreasing anesthesia levels, in correlation with the decrease in coherence of the underlying network. Changes in complexity level are related to, but not dependent on, changes in excitability. We conclude that cortical complexity can vary within a single brain state dominated by slow oscillations, building up to the higher complexity associated with consciousness.
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- Miguel Dasilva
- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Natl. Center for Radioprotection and Computational Physics, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Natl. Center for Radioprotection and Computational Physics, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.
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Mander BA. Local Sleep and Alzheimer's Disease Pathophysiology. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:525970. [PMID: 33071726 PMCID: PMC7538792 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.525970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Even prior to the onset of the prodromal stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a constellation of sleep disturbances are apparent. A series of epidemiological studies indicate that multiple forms of these sleep disturbances are associated with increased risk for developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD, even triggering disease onset at an earlier age. Through the combination of causal manipulation studies in humans and rodents, as well as targeted examination of sleep disturbance with respect to AD biomarkers, mechanisms linking sleep disturbance to AD are beginning to emerge. In this review, we explore recent evidence linking local deficits in brain oscillatory function during sleep with local AD pathological burden and circuit-level dysfunction and degeneration. In short, three deficits in the local expression of sleep oscillations have been identified in relation to AD pathophysiology: (1) frequency-specific frontal deficits in slow wave expression during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, (2) deficits in parietal sleep spindle expression, and (3) deficits in the quality of electroencephalographic (EEG) desynchrony characteristic of REM sleep. These deficits are noteworthy since they differ from that seen in normal aging, indicating the potential presence of an abnormal aging process. How each of these are associated with β-amyloid (Aβ) and tau pathology, as well as neurodegeneration of circuits sensitive to AD pathophysiology, are examined in the present review, with a focus on the role of dysfunction within fronto-hippocampal and subcortical sleep-wake circuits. It is hypothesized that each of these local sleep deficits arise from distinct network-specific dysfunctions driven by regionally-specific accumulation of AD pathologies, as well as their associated neurodegeneration. Overall, the evolution of these local sleep deficits offer unique windows into the circuit-specific progression of distinct AD pathophysiological processes prior to AD onset, as well as their impact on brain function. This includes the potential erosion of sleep-dependent memory mechanisms, which may contribute to memory decline in AD. This review closes with a discussion of the remaining critical knowledge gaps and implications of this work for future mechanistic studies and studies implementing sleep-based treatment interventions.
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- Bryce A. Mander
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
- Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
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Paller KA, Creery JD, Schechtman E. Memory and Sleep: How Sleep Cognition Can Change the Waking Mind for the Better. Annu Rev Psychol 2020; 72:123-150. [PMID: 32946325 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010419-050815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The memories that we retain can serve many functions. They guide our future actions, form a scaffold for constructing the self, and continue to shape both the self and the way we perceive the world. Although most memories we acquire each day are forgotten, those integrated within the structure of multiple prior memories tend to endure. A rapidly growing body of research is steadily elucidating how the consolidation of memories depends on their reactivation during sleep. Processing memories during sleep not only helps counteract their weakening but also supports problem solving, creativity, and emotional regulation. Yet, sleep-based processing might become maladaptive, such as when worries are excessively revisited. Advances in research on memory and sleep can thus shed light on how this processing influences our waking life, which can further inspire the development of novel strategies for decreasing detrimental rumination-like activity during sleep and for promoting beneficial sleep cognition.
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- Ken A Paller
- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA; , ,
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- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA; , ,
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- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA; , ,
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Zhang CQ, Catron MA, Ding L, Hanna CM, Gallagher MJ, Macdonald RL, Zhou C. Impaired State-Dependent Potentiation of GABAergic Synaptic Currents Triggers Seizures in a Genetic Generalized Epilepsy Model. Cereb Cortex 2020; 31:768-784. [PMID: 32930324 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2020] [Revised: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 08/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Epileptic activity in genetic generalized epilepsy (GGE) patients preferentially appears during sleep and its mechanism remains unknown. Here, we found that sleep-like slow-wave oscillations (0.5 Hz SWOs) potentiated excitatory and inhibitory synaptic currents in layer V cortical pyramidal neurons from wild-type (wt) mouse brain slices. In contrast, SWOs potentiated excitatory, but not inhibitory, currents in cortical neurons from a heterozygous (het) knock-in (KI) Gabrg2+Q/390X model of Dravet epilepsy syndrome. This created an imbalance between evoked excitatory and inhibitory currents to effectively prompt neuronal action potential firings. Similarly, physiologically similar up-/down-state induction (present during slow-wave sleep) in cortical neurons also potentiated excitatory synaptic currents within brain slices from wt and het KI mice. Moreover, this state-dependent potentiation of excitatory synaptic currents entailed some signaling pathways of homeostatic synaptic plasticity. Consequently, in het KI mice, in vivo SWO induction (using optogenetic methods) triggered generalized epileptic spike-wave discharges (SWDs), being accompanied by sudden immobility, facial myoclonus, and vibrissa twitching. In contrast, in wt littermates, SWO induction did not cause epileptic SWDs and motor behaviors. To our knowledge, this is the first mechanism to explain why epileptic SWDs preferentially happen during non rapid eye-movement sleep and quiet-wakefulness in human GGE patients.
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- Chun-Qing Zhang
- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience Graduate Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.,Department of Neuroscience Graduate Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.,Department of Neuroscience Graduate Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.,Department of Neuroscience Graduate Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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Hindriks R. A methodological framework for inverse-modeling of propagating cortical activity using MEG/EEG. Neuroimage 2020; 223:117345. [PMID: 32896634 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2020] [Revised: 08/18/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The prevailing view on the dynamics of large-scale electrical activity in the human cortex is that it constitutes a functional network of discrete and localized circuits. Within this view, a natural way to analyse magnetoencephalographic (MEG) and electroencephalographic (EEG) data is by adopting methods from network theory. Invasive recordings, however, demonstrate that cortical activity is spatially continuous, rather than discrete, and exhibits propagation behavior. Furthermore, human cortical activity is known to propagate under a variety of conditions such as non-REM sleep, general anesthesia, and coma. Although several MEG/EEG studies have investigated propagating cortical activity, not much is known about the conditions under which such activity can be successfully reconstructed from MEG/EEG sensor-data. This study provides a methodological framework for inverse-modeling of propagating cortical activity. Within this framework, cortical activity is represented in the spatial frequency domain, which is more natural than the dipole domain when dealing with spatially continuous activity. We define angular power spectra, which show how the power of cortical activity is distributed across spatial frequencies, angular gain/phase spectra, which characterize the spatial filtering properties of linear inverse operators, and angular resolution matrices, which summarize how linear inverse operators leak signal within and across spatial frequencies. We adopt the framework to provide insight into the performance of several linear inverse operators in reconstructing propagating cortical activity from MEG/EEG sensor-data. We also describe how prior spatial frequency information can be incorporated into the inverse-modeling to obtain better reconstructions.
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- Rikkert Hindriks
- Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Igor Timofeev
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada. .,CERVO Brain Research Center, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada.
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- CERVO Brain Research Center, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada
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Budzinskiy S, Beuter A, Volpert V. Nonlinear analysis of periodic waves in a neural field model. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2020; 30:083144. [PMID: 32872829 DOI: 10.1063/5.0012010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Various types of brain activity, including motor, visual, and language, are accompanied by the propagation of periodic waves of electric potential in the cortex, possibly providing the synchronization of the epicenters involved in these activities. One example is cortical electrical activity propagating during sleep and described as traveling waves [Massimini et al., J. Neurosci. 24, 6862-6870 (2004)]. These waves modulate cortical excitability as they progress. Clinically related examples include cortical spreading depression in which a wave of depolarization propagates not only in migraine but also in stroke, hemorrhage, or traumatic brain injury [Whalen et al., Sci. Rep. 8, 1-9 (2018)]. Here, we consider the possible role of epicenters and explore a neural field model with two nonlinear integrodifferential equations for the distributions of activating and inhibiting signals. It is studied with symmetric connectivity functions characterizing signal exchange between two populations of neurons, excitatory and inhibitory. Bifurcation analysis is used to investigate the emergence of periodic traveling waves and of standing oscillations from the stationary, spatially homogeneous solutions, and the stability of these solutions. Both types of solutions can be started by local oscillations indicating a possible role of epicenters in the initiation of wave propagation.
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- S Budzinskiy
- Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Miklukho-Maklaya St. 6, 117198 Moscow, Russia
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Sandrini M, Manenti R, Sahin H, Cotelli M. Effects of transcranial electrical stimulation on episodic memory in physiological and pathological ageing. Ageing Res Rev 2020; 61:101065. [PMID: 32275953 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2020.101065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2019] [Revised: 03/04/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Memory for personally-relevant past events (episodic memory) is critical for activities of daily living. Decline in this type of declarative long-term memory is a common characteristic of healthy ageing, a process accelerated in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) has been used as a strategy to ameliorate episodic memory. Here, we critically review studies investigating whether tES may improve episodic memory in physiological and pathological ageing. Most of the studies suggest that tES over the prefrontal or temporoparietal cortices can have a positive effect on episodic memory, but the transfer to improvement of execution of daily living activities is still unknown. Further work is needed to better understand the mechanisms underlying the effects of stimulation, combine tES with neuroimaging and optimizing the dosing of stimulation. Future studies should also investigate the optimal timing of stimulation and the combination with medications to induce long-lasting beneficial effects in pathological ageing. More open science efforts should be done to improve rigor and reliability of tES in ageing research.
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Lombardo D, Cassé-Perrot C, Ranjeva JP, Le Troter A, Guye M, Wirsich J, Payoux P, Bartrés-Faz D, Bordet R, Richardson JC, Felician O, Jirsa V, Blin O, Didic M, Battaglia D. Modular slowing of resting-state dynamic functional connectivity as a marker of cognitive dysfunction induced by sleep deprivation. Neuroimage 2020; 222:117155. [PMID: 32736002 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2020] [Revised: 05/25/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Dynamic Functional Connectivity (dFC) in the resting state (rs) is considered as a correlate of cognitive processing. Describing dFC as a flow across morphing connectivity configurations, our notion of dFC speed quantifies the rate at which FC networks evolve in time. Here we probe the hypothesis that variations of rs dFC speed and cognitive performance are selectively interrelated within specific functional subnetworks. In particular, we focus on Sleep Deprivation (SD) as a reversible model of cognitive dysfunction. We found that whole-brain level (global) dFC speed significantly slows down after 24h of SD. However, the reduction in global dFC speed does not correlate with variations of cognitive performance in individual tasks, which are subtle and highly heterogeneous. On the contrary, we found strong correlations between performance variations in individual tasks -including Rapid Visual Processing (RVP, assessing sustained visual attention)- and dFC speed quantified at the level of functional sub-networks of interest. Providing a compromise between classic static FC (no time) and global dFC (no space), modular dFC speed analyses allow quantifying a different speed of dFC reconfiguration independently for sub-networks overseeing different tasks. Importantly, we found that RVP performance robustly correlates with the modular dFC speed of a characteristic frontoparietal module.
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- Diego Lombardo
- Aix-Marseille Université, Inserm, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS) UMR_S 1106, 13005, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Inserm, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS) UMR_S 1106, 13005, Marseille, France; Service de Pharmacologie Clinique et Pharmacovigilance, AP-HM, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centre de Résonance Magnétique et Biologique et Médicale (CRMBM, 7339), Medical School of Marseille, 13005, Marseille, France; Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille, Hôpital de la Timone, CEMEREM, Pôle d'Imagerie Médicale, CHU, 13005, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centre de Résonance Magnétique et Biologique et Médicale (CRMBM, 7339), Medical School of Marseille, 13005, Marseille, France; Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille, Hôpital de la Timone, CEMEREM, Pôle d'Imagerie Médicale, CHU, 13005, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centre de Résonance Magnétique et Biologique et Médicale (CRMBM, 7339), Medical School of Marseille, 13005, Marseille, France; Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille, Hôpital de la Timone, CEMEREM, Pôle d'Imagerie Médicale, CHU, 13005, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centre de Résonance Magnétique et Biologique et Médicale (CRMBM, 7339), Medical School of Marseille, 13005, Marseille, France
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- UMR 825 Inserm, Imagerie Cérébrale et Handicaps Neurologiques, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona and Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
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- U1171 Inserm, CHU Lille, Degenerative and Vascular Cognitive Disorders, University of Lille, Lille, France
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- Neurosciences Therapeutic Area Unit, GlaxoSmithKline R&D, Stevenage, UK
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Inserm, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS) UMR_S 1106, 13005, Marseille, France; APHM, Timone, Service de Neurologie et Neuropsychologie, Hôpital Timone Adultes, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Inserm, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS) UMR_S 1106, 13005, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Inserm, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS) UMR_S 1106, 13005, Marseille, France; Service de Pharmacologie Clinique et Pharmacovigilance, AP-HM, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Inserm, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS) UMR_S 1106, 13005, Marseille, France; APHM, Timone, Service de Neurologie et Neuropsychologie, Hôpital Timone Adultes, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Inserm, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS) UMR_S 1106, 13005, Marseille, France.
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Basal ganglia beta oscillations during sleep underlie Parkinsonian insomnia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:17359-17368. [PMID: 32636265 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2001560117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Sleep disorders are among the most debilitating comorbidities of Parkinson's disease (PD) and affect the majority of patients. Of these, the most common is insomnia, the difficulty to initiate and maintain sleep. The degree of insomnia correlates with PD severity and it responds to treatments that decrease pathological basal ganglia (BG) beta oscillations (10-17 Hz in primates), suggesting that beta activity in the BG may contribute to insomnia. We used multiple electrodes to record BG spiking and field potentials during normal sleep and in 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced Parkinsonism in nonhuman primates. MPTP intoxication resulted in severe insomnia with delayed sleep onset, sleep fragmentation, and increased wakefulness. Insomnia was accompanied by the onset of nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep beta oscillations that were synchronized across the BG and cerebral cortex. The BG beta oscillatory activity was associated with a decrease in slow oscillations (0.1-2 Hz) throughout the cortex, and spontaneous awakenings were preceded by an increase in BG beta activity and cortico-BG beta coherence. Finally, the increase in beta oscillations in the basal ganglia during sleep paralleled decreased NREM sleep, increased wakefulness, and more frequent awakenings. These results identify NREM sleep beta oscillation in the BG as a neural correlate of PD insomnia and suggest a mechanism by which this disorder could emerge.
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Thomas CW, Guillaumin MCC, McKillop LE, Achermann P, Vyazovskiy VV. Global sleep homeostasis reflects temporally and spatially integrated local cortical neuronal activity. eLife 2020; 9:e54148. [PMID: 32614324 PMCID: PMC7332296 DOI: 10.7554/elife.54148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Sleep homeostasis manifests as a relative constancy of its daily amount and intensity. Theoretical descriptions define 'Process S', a variable with dynamics dependent on global sleep-wake history, and reflected in electroencephalogram (EEG) slow wave activity (SWA, 0.5-4 Hz) during sleep. The notion of sleep as a local, activity-dependent process suggests that activity history must be integrated to determine the dynamics of global Process S. Here, we developed novel mathematical models of Process S based on cortical activity recorded in freely behaving mice, describing local Process S as a function of the deviation of neuronal firing rates from a locally defined set-point, independent of global sleep-wake state. Averaging locally derived Processes S and their rate parameters yielded values resembling those obtained from EEG SWA and global vigilance states. We conclude that local Process S dynamics reflects neuronal activity integrated over time, and global Process S reflects local processes integrated over space.
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- Christopher W Thomas
- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of ZurichZurichSwitzerland
- The KEY Institute for Brain-Mind Research, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Hospital of PsychiatryZurichSwitzerland
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of OxfordOxfordUnited Kingdom
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Gretenkord S, Olthof BMJ, Stylianou M, Rees A, Gartside SE, LeBeau FEN. Electrical stimulation of the ventral tegmental area evokes sleep-like state transitions under urethane anaesthesia in the rat medial prefrontal cortex via dopamine D 1 -like receptors. Eur J Neurosci 2020; 52:2915-2930. [PMID: 31891427 PMCID: PMC7497269 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2019] [Revised: 12/20/2019] [Accepted: 12/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The role of dopamine in regulating sleep-state transitions during, both natural sleep and under anaesthesia, is still unclear. Recording in vivo in the rat mPFC under urethane anaesthesia, we observed predominantly slow wave activity (SWA) of <1 Hz in the local field potential interrupted by occasional spontaneous transitions to a low-amplitude-fast (LAF) pattern of activity. During periods of SWA, transitions to LAF activity could be rapidly and consistently evoked by electrical stimulation of the ventral tegmental area (VTA). Spontaneous LAF activity, and that evoked by stimulation of the VTA, consisted of fast oscillations similar to those seen in the rapid eye movement (REM)-like sleep state. Spontaneous and VTA stimulation-evoked LAF activity occurred simultaneously along the dorsoventral extent of all mPFC subregions. Evoked LAF activity depended on VTA stimulation current and could be elicited using either regular (25-50 Hz) or burst stimulation patterns and was reproducible upon repeated stimulation. Simultaneous extracellular single-unit recordings showed that during SWA, presumed pyramidal cells fired phasically and almost exclusively on the Up state, while during both spontaneous and VTA-evoked LAF activity, they fired tonically. The transition to LAF activity evoked by VTA stimulation depended on dopamine D1 -like receptor activation as it was almost completely blocked by systemic administration of the D1 -like receptor antagonist SCH23390. Overall, our data demonstrate that activation of dopamine D1 -like receptors in the mPFC is important for regulating sleep-like state transitions.
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- Sabine Gretenkord
- Biosciences InstituteMedical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Upon TyneUK
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- Biosciences InstituteMedical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Upon TyneUK
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- Biosciences InstituteMedical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Upon TyneUK
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- Biosciences InstituteMedical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Upon TyneUK
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- Biosciences InstituteMedical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Upon TyneUK
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- Biosciences InstituteMedical SchoolNewcastle UniversityNewcastle Upon TyneUK
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Castelnovo A, Zago M, Casetta C, Zangani C, Donati F, Canevini M, Riedner BA, Tononi G, Ferrarelli F, Sarasso S, D'Agostino A. Slow wave oscillations in Schizophrenia First-Degree Relatives: A confirmatory analysis and feasibility study on slow wave traveling. Schizophr Res 2020; 221:37-43. [PMID: 32220503 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2020.03.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2019] [Revised: 03/11/2020] [Accepted: 03/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Abnormal sleep oscillations have recently been proposed as endophenotypes of schizophrenia. However, optimization of methodological approaches is still necessary to standardize analyses of their microstructural characteristics. Additionally, some relevant features of these oscillations remain unexplored in pathological conditions. Among others, slow wave traveling is a promising proxy for diurnal processes of brain connectivity and excitability. The study of slow oscillations propagation appears particularly relevant when schizophrenia is conceptualized as a dys-connectivity syndrome. Given the rising knowledge on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying slow wave traveling, this measure might offer substantial advantages over other approaches in investigating brain connectivity. Herein we: 1) confirm the stability of our previous findings on slow waves and sleep spindles in FDRs using different automated algorithms, and 2) report the dynamics of slow wave traveling in FDRs of Schizophrenia patients. A 256-channel, high-density EEG system was employed to record a whole night of sleep of 16 FDRs and 16 age- and gender-matched control subjects. A recently developed, open source toolbox was used for slow wave visualization and detection. Slow waves were confirmed to be significantly smaller in FDRs compared to the control group. Additionally, several traveling parameters were analyzed. Traveled distances were found to be significantly reduced in FDRs, whereas origins showed a different topographical pattern of distribution from control subjects. In contrast, local speed did not differ between groups. Overall, these results suggest that slow wave traveling might be a viable method to study pathological conditions interfering with brain connectivity.
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- Anna Castelnovo
- Department of Health Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy; Sleep Center, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Regional Civic Hospital of Lugano, Switzerland; University of Southern Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland.
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- Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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- King's College London, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- Department of Health Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, United States
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- "L. Sacco" Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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Lee YF, Gerashchenko D, Timofeev I, Bacskai BJ, Kastanenka KV. Slow Wave Sleep Is a Promising Intervention Target for Alzheimer's Disease. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:705. [PMID: 32714142 PMCID: PMC7340158 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2020] [Accepted: 06/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the major cause of dementia, characterized by the presence of amyloid-beta plaques and neurofibrillary tau tangles. Plaques and tangles are associated with sleep-wake cycle disruptions, including the disruptions in non-rapid eye movement (NREM) slow wave sleep (SWS). Alzheimer's patients spend less time in NREM sleep and exhibit decreased slow wave activity (SWA). Consistent with the critical role of SWS in memory consolidation, reduced SWA is associated with impaired memory consolidation in AD patients. The aberrant SWA can be modeled in transgenic mouse models of amyloidosis and tauopathy. Animal models exhibited slow wave impairments early in the disease progression, prior to the deposition of amyloid-beta plaques, however, in the presence of abundant oligomeric amyloid-beta. Optogenetic rescue of SWA successfully halted the amyloid accumulation and restored intraneuronal calcium levels in mice. On the other hand, optogenetic acceleration of slow wave frequency exacerbated amyloid deposition and disrupted neuronal calcium homeostasis. In this review, we summarize the evidence and the mechanisms underlying the existence of a positive feedback loop between amyloid/tau pathology and SWA disruptions that lead to further accumulations of amyloid and tau in AD. Moreover, since SWA disruptions occur prior to the plaque deposition, SWA disruptions may provide an early biomarker for AD. Finally, we propose that therapeutic targeting of SWA in AD might lead to an effective treatment for Alzheimer's patients.
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- Yee Fun Lee
- Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
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- Harvard Medical School/VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
- CERVO Brain Research Center, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States
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- Department of Neurology, MassGeneral Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States
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Changes in cross-frequency coupling following closed-loop auditory stimulation in non-rapid eye movement sleep. Sci Rep 2020; 10:10628. [PMID: 32606321 PMCID: PMC7326971 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-67392-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Regional changes of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep delta and sigma activity, and their temporal coupling have been related to experience-dependent plastic changes during previous wakefulness. These sleep-specific rhythms seem to be important for brain recovery and memory consolidation. Recently, it was demonstrated that by targeting slow waves in a particular region at a specific phase with closed-loop auditory stimulation, it is possible to locally manipulate slow-wave activity and interact with training-induced neuroplastic changes. In our study, we tested whether closed-loop auditory stimulation targeting the up-phase of slow waves might not only interact with the main sleep rhythms but also with their coupling within the circumscribed region. We demonstrate that while closed-loop auditory stimulation globally enhances delta, theta and sigma power, changes in cross-frequency coupling of these oscillations were more spatially restricted. Importantly, a significant increase in delta-sigma coupling was observed over the right parietal area, located directly posterior to the target electrode. These findings suggest that closed-loop auditory stimulation locally modulates coupling between delta phase and sigma power in a targeted region, which could be used to manipulate sleep-dependent neuroplasticity within the brain network of interest.
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Menicucci D, Piarulli A, Laurino M, Zaccaro A, Agrimi J, Gemignani A. Sleep slow oscillations favour local cortical plasticity underlying the consolidation of reinforced procedural learning in human sleep. J Sleep Res 2020; 29:e13117. [PMID: 32592318 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.13117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2020] [Revised: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We investigated changes of slow-wave activity and sleep slow oscillations in the night following procedural learning boosted by reinforcement learning, and how these changes correlate with behavioural output. In the Task session, participants had to reach a visual target adapting cursor's movements to compensate an angular deviation introduced experimentally, while in the Control session no deviation was applied. The task was repeated at 13:00 hours, 17:00 hours and 23:00 hours before sleep, and at 08:00 hours after sleep. The deviation angle was set at 15° (13:00 hours and 17:00 hours) and increased to 45° (reinforcement) at 23:00 hours and 08:00 hours. Both for Task and Control nights, high-density electroencephalogram sleep recordings were carried out (23:30-19:30 hours). The Task night as compared with the Control night showed increases of: (a) slow-wave activity (absolute power) over the whole scalp; (b) slow-wave activity (relative power) in left centro-parietal areas; (c) sleep slow oscillations rate in sensorimotor and premotor areas; (d) amplitude of pre-down and up states in premotor regions, left sensorimotor and right parietal regions; (e) sigma crowning the up state in right parietal regions. After Task night, we found an improvement of task performance showing correlations with sleep slow oscillations rate in right premotor, sensorimotor and parietal regions. These findings suggest a key role of sleep slow oscillations in procedural memories consolidation. The diverse components of sleep slow oscillations selectively reflect the network activations related to the reinforced learning of a procedural visuomotor task. Indeed, areas specifically involved in the task stand out as those with a significant association between sleep slow oscillations rate and overnight improvement in task performance.
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- Danilo Menicucci
- Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular Pathology and Critical Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular Pathology and Critical Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.,Coma Science Group, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège and University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular Pathology and Critical Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular Pathology and Critical Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.,Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy.,Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy
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Hahn MA, Heib D, Schabus M, Hoedlmoser K, Helfrich RF. Slow oscillation-spindle coupling predicts enhanced memory formation from childhood to adolescence. eLife 2020; 9:e53730. [PMID: 32579108 PMCID: PMC7314542 DOI: 10.7554/elife.53730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2019] [Accepted: 05/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Precise temporal coordination of slow oscillations (SO) and sleep spindles is a fundamental mechanism of sleep-dependent memory consolidation. SO and spindle morphology changes considerably throughout development. Critically, it remains unknown how the precise temporal coordination of these two sleep oscillations develops during brain maturation and whether their synchronization indexes the development of memory networks. Here, we use a longitudinal study design spanning from childhood to adolescence, where participants underwent polysomnography and performed a declarative word-pair learning task. Performance on the memory task was better during adolescence. After disentangling oscillatory components from 1/f activity, we found frequency shifts within SO and spindle frequency bands. Consequently, we devised an individualized cross-frequency coupling approach, which demonstrates that SO-spindle coupling strength increases during maturation. Critically, this increase indicated enhanced memory formation from childhood to adolescence. Our results provide evidence that improved coordination between SOs and spindles indexes the development of sleep-dependent memory networks.
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- Michael A Hahn
- Department of Psychology, Laboratory for Sleep, Cognition and Consciousness Research, University of SalzburgSalzburgAustria
- Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience Salzburg (CCNS), University of SalzburgSalzburgAustria
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- Department of Psychology, Laboratory for Sleep, Cognition and Consciousness Research, University of SalzburgSalzburgAustria
- Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience Salzburg (CCNS), University of SalzburgSalzburgAustria
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- Department of Psychology, Laboratory for Sleep, Cognition and Consciousness Research, University of SalzburgSalzburgAustria
- Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience Salzburg (CCNS), University of SalzburgSalzburgAustria
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- Department of Psychology, Laboratory for Sleep, Cognition and Consciousness Research, University of SalzburgSalzburgAustria
- Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience Salzburg (CCNS), University of SalzburgSalzburgAustria
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- Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of TübingenTübingenGermany
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Gravel N, Renken RJ, Harvey BM, Deco G, Cornelissen FW, Gilson M. Propagation of BOLD Activity Reveals Task-dependent Directed Interactions Across Human Visual Cortex. Cereb Cortex 2020; 30:5899-5914. [PMID: 32577717 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Revised: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 05/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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It has recently been shown that large-scale propagation of blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) activity is constrained by anatomical connections and reflects transitions between behavioral states. It remains to be seen, however, if the propagation of BOLD activity can also relate to the brain's anatomical structure at a more local scale. Here, we hypothesized that BOLD propagation reflects structured neuronal activity across early visual field maps. To explore this hypothesis, we characterize the propagation of BOLD activity across V1, V2, and V3 using a modeling approach that aims to disentangle the contributions of local activity and directed interactions in shaping BOLD propagation. It does so by estimating the effective connectivity (EC) and the excitability of a noise-diffusion network to reproduce the spatiotemporal covariance structure of the data. We apply our approach to 7T fMRI recordings acquired during resting state (RS) and visual field mapping (VFM). Our results reveal different EC interactions and changes in cortical excitability in RS and VFM, and point to a reconfiguration of feedforward and feedback interactions across the visual system. We conclude that the propagation of BOLD activity has functional relevance, as it reveals directed interactions and changes in cortical excitability in a task-dependent manner.
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- Nicolás Gravel
- Neural Dynamics of Visual Cognition Group, Department of Education and Psychology, Freie University Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.,Laboratory of Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands.,Cognitive Neuroscience Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), 08010 Barcelona, Spain.,Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.,School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, VIC 3800 Melbourne, Australia
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- Laboratory of Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
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Aedo-Jury F, Schwalm M, Hamzehpour L, Stroh A. Brain states govern the spatio-temporal dynamics of resting-state functional connectivity. eLife 2020; 9:53186. [PMID: 32568067 PMCID: PMC7329332 DOI: 10.7554/elife.53186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Previously, using simultaneous resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and photometry-based neuronal calcium recordings in the anesthetized rat, we identified blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) responses directly related to slow calcium waves, revealing a cortex-wide and spatially organized correlate of locally recorded neuronal activity (Schwalm et al., 2017). Here, using the same techniques, we investigate two distinct cortical activity states: persistent activity, in which compartmentalized network dynamics were observed; and slow wave activity, dominated by a cortex-wide BOLD component, suggesting a strong functional coupling of inter-cortical activity. During slow wave activity, we find a correlation between the occurring slow wave events and the strength of functional connectivity between different cortical areas. These findings suggest that down-up transitions of neuronal excitability can drive cortex-wide functional connectivity. This study provides further evidence that changes in functional connectivity are dependent on the brain's current state, directly linked to the generation of slow waves.
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- Felipe Aedo-Jury
- Institute of Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.,Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.,Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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- Institute of Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.,Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany
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Rapid fast-delta decay following prolonged wakefulness marks a phase of wake-inertia in NREM sleep. Nat Commun 2020; 11:3130. [PMID: 32561733 PMCID: PMC7305232 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16915-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2019] [Accepted: 05/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Sleep-wake driven changes in non-rapid-eye-movement sleep (NREM) sleep (NREMS) EEG delta (δ-)power are widely used as proxy for a sleep homeostatic process. Here, we noted frequency increases in δ-waves in sleep-deprived mice, prompting us to re-evaluate how slow-wave characteristics relate to prior sleep-wake history. We identified two classes of δ-waves; one responding to sleep deprivation with high initial power and fast, discontinuous decay during recovery sleep (δ2) and another unrelated to time-spent-awake with slow, linear decay (δ1). Reanalysis of previously published datasets demonstrates that δ-band heterogeneity after sleep deprivation is also present in human subjects. Similar to sleep deprivation, silencing of centromedial thalamus neurons boosted subsequent δ2-waves, specifically. δ2-dynamics paralleled that of temperature, muscle tone, heart rate, and neuronal ON-/OFF-state lengths, all reverting to characteristic NREMS levels within the first recovery hour. Thus, prolonged waking seems to necessitate a physiological recalibration before typical NREMS can be reinstated. Changes in EEG delta-activity are widely used as proxy of sleep propensity. Here the authors demonstrate in mice and humans the presence of two types of delta-waves, only one of which reports on prior sleep-wake history with dynamics denoting a wake-inertia process accompanying deepest non-rapid-eye-movement sleep (NREM) sleep.
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Integrity of Corpus Callosum Is Essential for theCross-Hemispheric Propagation of Sleep Slow Waves:A High-Density EEG Study in Split-Brain Patients. J Neurosci 2020; 40:5589-5603. [PMID: 32541070 PMCID: PMC7363462 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2571-19.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2019] [Revised: 02/17/2020] [Accepted: 04/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The slow waves of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep reflect experience-dependent plasticity and play a direct role in the restorative functions of sleep. Importantly, slow waves behave as traveling waves, and their propagation is assumed to occur through cortico-cortical white matter connections. In this light, the corpus callosum (CC) may represent the main responsible for cross-hemispheric slow-wave propagation. To verify this hypothesis, we performed overnight high-density (hd)-EEG recordings in five patients who underwent total callosotomy due to drug-resistant epilepsy (CPs; two females), in three noncallosotomized neurologic patients (NPs; two females), and in a sample of 24 healthy adult subjects (HSs; 13 females). In all CPs slow waves displayed a significantly reduced probability of cross-hemispheric propagation and a stronger inter-hemispheric asymmetry. In both CPs and HSs, the incidence of large slow waves within individual NREM epochs tended to differ across hemispheres, with a relative overall predominance of the right over the left hemisphere. The absolute magnitude of this asymmetry was greater in CPs relative to HSs. However, the CC resection had no significant effects on the distribution of slow-wave origin probability across hemispheres. The present results indicate that CC integrity is essential for the cross-hemispheric traveling of slow waves in human sleep, which is in line with the assumption of a direct relationship between white matter integrity and slow-wave propagation. Our findings also revealed a residual cross-hemispheric slow-wave propagation that may rely on alternative pathways, including cortico-subcortico-cortical loops. Finally, these data indicate that the lack of the CC does not lead to differences in slow-wave generation across brain hemispheres. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT The slow waves of NREM sleep behave as traveling waves, and their propagation has been suggested to reflect the integrity of white matter cortico-cortical connections. To directly assess this hypothesis, here we investigated the role of the corpus callosum in the cortical spreading of NREM slow waves through the study of a rare population of totally callosotomized patients. Our results demonstrate a causal role of the corpus callosum in the cross-hemispheric traveling of sleep slow waves. Additionally, we found that callosotomy does not affect the relative tendency of each hemisphere at generating slow waves. Incidentally, we also found that slow waves tend to originate more often in the right than in the left hemisphere in both callosotomized and healthy adult individuals.
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Competing Roles of Slow Oscillations and Delta Waves in Memory Consolidation versus Forgetting. Cell 2020; 179:514-526.e13. [PMID: 31585085 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.08.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2019] [Revised: 07/13/2019] [Accepted: 08/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Sleep has been implicated in both memory consolidation and forgetting of experiences. However, it is unclear what governs the balance between consolidation and forgetting. Here, we tested how activity-dependent processing during sleep might differentially regulate these two processes. We specifically examined how neural reactivations during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep were causally linked to consolidation versus weakening of the neural correlates of neuroprosthetic skill. Strikingly, we found that slow oscillations (SOs) and delta (δ) waves have dissociable and competing roles in consolidation versus forgetting. By modulating cortical spiking linked to SOs or δ waves using closed-loop optogenetic methods, we could, respectively, weaken or strengthen consolidation and thereby bidirectionally modulate sleep-dependent performance gains. We further found that changes in the temporal coupling of spindles to SOs relative to δ waves could account for such effects. Thus, our results indicate that neural activity driven by SOs and δ waves have competing roles in sleep-dependent memory consolidation.
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Bandarabadi M, Vassalli A, Tafti M. Sleep as a default state of cortical and subcortical networks. CURRENT OPINION IN PHYSIOLOGY 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cophys.2019.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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van der Meij J, Ungurean G, Rattenborg NC, Beckers GJL. Evolution of sleep in relation to memory – a birds’ brain view. Curr Opin Behav Sci 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2019.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Reimann HM, Niendorf T. The (Un)Conscious Mouse as a Model for Human Brain Functions: Key Principles of Anesthesia and Their Impact on Translational Neuroimaging. Front Syst Neurosci 2020; 14:8. [PMID: 32508601 PMCID: PMC7248373 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2020.00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2019] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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In recent years, technical and procedural advances have brought functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to the field of murine neuroscience. Due to its unique capacity to measure functional activity non-invasively, across the entire brain, fMRI allows for the direct comparison of large-scale murine and human brain functions. This opens an avenue for bidirectional translational strategies to address fundamental questions ranging from neurological disorders to the nature of consciousness. The key challenges of murine fMRI are: (1) to generate and maintain functional brain states that approximate those of calm and relaxed human volunteers, while (2) preserving neurovascular coupling and physiological baseline conditions. Low-dose anesthetic protocols are commonly applied in murine functional brain studies to prevent stress and facilitate a calm and relaxed condition among animals. Yet, current mono-anesthesia has been shown to impair neural transmission and hemodynamic integrity. By linking the current state of murine electrophysiology, Ca2+ imaging and fMRI of anesthetic effects to findings from human studies, this systematic review proposes general principles to design, apply and monitor anesthetic protocols in a more sophisticated way. The further development of balanced multimodal anesthesia, combining two or more drugs with complementary modes of action helps to shape and maintain specific brain states and relevant aspects of murine physiology. Functional connectivity and its dynamic repertoire as assessed by fMRI can be used to make inferences about cortical states and provide additional information about whole-brain functional dynamics. Based on this, a simple and comprehensive functional neurosignature pattern can be determined for use in defining brain states and anesthetic depth in rest and in response to stimuli. Such a signature can be evaluated and shared between labs to indicate the brain state of a mouse during experiments, an important step toward translating findings across species.
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- Henning M. Reimann
- Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers (HZ), Berlin, Germany
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- Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.), Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers (HZ), Berlin, Germany
- Experimental and Clinical Research Center, A Joint Cooperation Between the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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Coelli S, Nobili L, Boly M, Riedner B, Bianchi AM. Optimization of the Cortical Traveling Wave Analysis framework for feasibility in Stereo-Electroencephalography. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2020; 2019:3854-3857. [PMID: 31946714 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2019.8857664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The study of brain waves propagation is of interest to understand the neural involvement in both physiological and pathological events, such as interictal epileptic spikes (IES). The possibility to track the trajectory of IESs could be useful to better characterize the role of the involved structures in the epileptic network, adding valuable information to the epileptic focus localization. Methods for the cortical traveling wave analysis (CTWA) have been proposed to trace the preferred propagation path of sleep slow waves, using scalp high-density EEG and reconstructing the trajectories both in the sensors and in the sources space. In this work, we propose a feasibility study of the application of these concepts to Stereo-EEG (SEEG) data for the analysis of IES. Through simulations, we selected the best performing Electrical Source Imaging inverse solution for our purpose and illustrate the CTWA procedure. We further show an exemplary application on real data and discuss advantages and pitfalls of the application of CTWA in SEEG.
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The claustrum coordinates cortical slow-wave activity. Nat Neurosci 2020; 23:741-753. [DOI: 10.1038/s41593-020-0625-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2018] [Accepted: 03/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Frase L, Regen W, Kass S, Rambach A, Baglioni C, Feige B, Hennig J, Riemann D, Nissen C, Spiegelhalder K. Hippocampal and medial prefrontal cortical volume is associated with overnight declarative memory consolidation independent of specific sleep oscillations. J Sleep Res 2020; 29:e13062. [PMID: 32374066 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.13062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Revised: 03/17/2020] [Accepted: 04/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The current study was designed to further clarify the influence of brain morphology, sleep oscillatory activity and age on memory consolidation. Specifically, we hypothesized, that a smaller volume of hippocampus, parahippocampal and medial prefrontal cortex negatively impacts declarative, but not procedural, memory consolidation. Explorative analyses were conducted to demonstrate whether a decrease in slow-wave activity negatively impacts declarative memory consolidation, and whether these factors mediate age effects on memory consolidation. Thirty-eight healthy participants underwent an acquisition session in the evening and a retrieval session in the morning after night-time sleep with polysomnographic monitoring. Declarative memory was assessed with the paired-associate word list task, while procedural memory was tested using the mirror-tracing task. All participants underwent high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging. Participants with smaller hippocampal, parahippocampal and medial prefrontal cortex volumes displayed a reduced overnight declarative, but not procedural memory consolidation. Mediation analyses showed significant age effects on overnight declarative memory consolidation, but no significant mediation effects of brain morphology on this association. Further mediation analyses showed that the effects of age and brain morphology on overnight declarative memory consolidation were not mediated by polysomnographic variables or sleep electroencephalogram spectral power variables. Thus, the results suggest that the association between age, specific brain area volume and overnight memory consolidation is highly relevant, but does not necessarily depend on slow-wave sleep as previously conceptualized.
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- Lukas Frase
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Radiology - Medical Physics, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.,University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Brancaccio A, Tabarelli D, Bigica M, Baldauf D. Cortical source localization of sleep-stage specific oscillatory activity. Sci Rep 2020; 10:6976. [PMID: 32332806 PMCID: PMC7181624 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-63933-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The oscillatory features of non-REM sleep states have been a subject of intense research over many decades. However, a systematic spatial characterization of the spectral features of cortical activity in each sleep state is not available yet. Here, we used magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG) recordings during night sleep. We performed source reconstruction based on the individual subject’s anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and spectral analysis on each non-REM sleep epoch in eight standard frequency bands, spanning the complete spectrum, and computed cortical source reconstructions of the spectral contrasts between each sleep state in comparison to the resting wakefulness. Despite not distinguishing periods of high and low activity within each sleep stage, our results provide new information about relative overall spectral changes in the non-REM sleep stages.
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- Arianna Brancaccio
- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
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- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - CIMeC, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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