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Fink CG, Sanda P, Bayer L, Abeysinghe E, Bazhenov M, Krishnan GP. Python/NEURON code for simulating biophysically realistic thalamocortical dynamics during sleep. SOFTWARE IMPACTS 2024; 21:100667. [PMID: 39345726 PMCID: PMC11434128 DOI: 10.1016/j.simpa.2024.100667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/01/2024]
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Understanding the function of sleep and its associated neural rhythms is an important goal in neuroscience. While many theoretical models of neural dynamics during sleep exist, few include the effects of neuromodulators on sleep oscillations and describe transitions between sleep and wake states or different sleep stages. Here, we started with a C++-based thalamocortical network model that describes characteristic thalamic and cortical oscillations specific to sleep. This model, which includes a biophysically realistic description of intrinsic and synaptic channels, allows for testing the effects of different neuromodulators, intrinsic cell properties, and synaptic connectivity on neural dynamics during sleep. We present a complete reimplementation of this previously-published sleep model in the standardized NEURON/Python framework, making it more accessible to the wider scientific community.
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- Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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Weiner OM, O'Byrne J, Cross NE, Giraud J, Tarelli L, Yue V, Homer L, Walker K, Carbone R, Dang-Vu TT. Slow oscillation-spindle cross-frequency coupling predicts overnight declarative memory consolidation in older adults. Eur J Neurosci 2024; 59:662-685. [PMID: 37002805 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2022] [Revised: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 04/04/2023]
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Cross-frequency coupling (CFC) between brain oscillations during non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep (e.g. slow oscillations [SO] and spindles) may be a neural mechanism of overnight memory consolidation. Declines in CFC across the lifespan might accompany coinciding memory problems with ageing. However, there are few reports of CFC changes during sleep after learning in older adults, controlling for baseline effects. Our objective was to examine NREM CFC in healthy older adults, with an emphasis on spindle activity and SOs from frontal electroencephalogram (EEG), during a learning night after a declarative learning task, as compared to a baseline night without learning. Twenty-five older adults (M [SD] age = 69.12 [5.53] years; 64% female) completed a two-night study, with a pre- and post-sleep word-pair associates task completed on the second night. SO-spindle coupling strength and a measure of coupling phase distance from the SO up-state were both examined for between-night differences and associations with memory consolidation. Coupling strength and phase distance from the up-state peak were both stable between nights. Change in coupling strength between nights was not associated with memory consolidation, but a shift in coupling phase towards (vs. away from) the up-state peak after learning predicted better memory consolidation. Also, an exploratory interaction model suggested that associations between coupling phase closer to the up-state peak and memory consolidation may be moderated by higher (vs. lower) coupling strength. This study supports a role for NREM CFC in sleep-related memory consolidation in older adults.
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- Oren M Weiner
- PERFORM Centre and Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Department of Psychology and Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, CIUSSS Centre-Sud-de-l'île-de-Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- PERFORM Centre and Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Department of Psychology and Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- PERFORM Centre and Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Department of Psychology and Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, CIUSSS Centre-Sud-de-l'île-de-Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Neurosciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- PERFORM Centre and Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Department of Psychology and Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, CIUSSS Centre-Sud-de-l'île-de-Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- PERFORM Centre and Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Department of Psychology and Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- PERFORM Centre and Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Department of Psychology and Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- PERFORM Centre and Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Department of Psychology and Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- PERFORM Centre and Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Department of Psychology and Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- PERFORM Centre and Center for Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology, Department of Psychology and Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, CIUSSS Centre-Sud-de-l'île-de-Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Neurosciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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Halonen R, Luokkala S, Kuula L, Antila M, Pesonen AK. Right-lateralized sleep spindles are associated with neutral over emotional bias in picture recognition: An overnight study. COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE 2023; 23:1445-1459. [PMID: 37308745 PMCID: PMC10260275 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-023-01113-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Sleep is especially important for emotional memories, although the mechanisms for prioritizing emotional content are insufficiently known. As during waking, emotional processing during sleep may be hemispherically asymmetric; right-lateralized rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep theta (~4-7 Hz) is reportedly associated with emotional memory retention. No research exists on lateralized non-REM sleep oscillations. However, sleep spindles, especially when coupled with slow oscillations (SOs), facilitate off-line memory consolidation.Our primary goal was to examine how the lateralization (right-to-left contrast) of REM theta, sleep spindles, and SO-spindle coupling is associated with overnight recognition memory in a task consisting of neutral and emotionally aversive pictures. Thirty-two healthy adults encoded 150 target pictures before overnight sleep. The recognition of target pictures among foils (discriminability, d') was tested immediately, 12 hours, and 24 hours after encoding.Recognition discriminability between targets and foils was similar for neutral and emotional pictures in immediate and 12-h retrievals. After 24 hours, emotional pictures were less accurately discriminated (p < 0.001). Emotional difference at 24-h retrieval was associated with right-to-left contrast in frontal fast spindle density (p < 0.001). The lateralization of SO-spindle coupling was associated with higher neutral versus emotional difference across all retrievals (p = 0.004).Our findings contribute to a largely unstudied area in sleep-related memory research. Hemispheric asymmetry in non-REM sleep oscillations may contribute to how neutral versus emotional information is processed. This is presumably underlain by both mechanistic offline memory consolidation and a trait-like cognitive/affective bias that influences memory encoding and retrieval. Methodological choices and participants' affective traits are likely involved.
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- Risto Halonen
- SleepWell Research Program, Research Program Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 21, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 21, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
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- SleepWell Research Program, Research Program Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 21, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 21, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
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- SleepWell Research Program, Research Program Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 21, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.
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Baena D, Fang Z, Gibbings A, Smith D, Ray LB, Doyon J, Owen AM, Fogel SM. Functional differences in cerebral activation between slow wave-coupled and uncoupled sleep spindles. Front Neurosci 2023; 16:1090045. [PMID: 36741053 PMCID: PMC9889560 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.1090045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 12/28/2022] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Spindles are often temporally coupled to slow waves (SW). These SW-spindle complexes have been implicated in memory consolidation that involves transfer of information from the hippocampus to the neocortex. However, spindles and SW, which are characteristic of NREM sleep, can occur as part of this complex, or in isolation. It is not clear whether dissociable parts of the brain are recruited when coupled to SW vs. when spindles or SW occur in isolation. Here, we tested differences in cerebral activation time-locked to uncoupled spindles, uncoupled SW and coupled SW-spindle complexes using simultaneous EEG-fMRI. Consistent with the "active system model," we hypothesized that brain activations time-locked to coupled SW-spindles would preferentially occur in brain areas known to be critical for sleep-dependent memory consolidation. Our results show that coupled spindles and uncoupled spindles recruit distinct parts of the brain. Specifically, we found that hippocampal activation during sleep is not uniquely related to spindles. Rather, this process is primarily driven by SWs and SW-spindle coupling. In addition, we show that SW-spindle coupling is critical in the activation of the putamen. Importantly, SW-spindle coupling specifically recruited frontal areas in comparison to uncoupled spindles, which may be critical for the hippocampal-neocortical dialogue that preferentially occurs during sleep.
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- Daniel Baena
- Sleep Unit, University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research at The Royal, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Sleep Unit, University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research at The Royal, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Sleep Unit, University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research at The Royal, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, ON, Canada,Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, ON, Canada
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- Sleep Unit, University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research at The Royal, Ottawa, ON, Canada,School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada,The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, ON, Canada,Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, ON, Canada,University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada,*Correspondence: Stuart M. Fogel,
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Subramanian S, Labonte AK, Nguyen T, Luong AH, Hyche O, Smith SK, Hogan RE, Farber NB, Palanca BJA, Kafashan M. Correlating electroconvulsive therapy response to electroencephalographic markers: Study protocol. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:996733. [PMID: 36405897 PMCID: PMC9670172 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.996733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Introduction Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective intervention for patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). Despite longstanding use, the underlying mechanisms of ECT are unknown, and there are no objective prognostic biomarkers that are routinely used for ECT response. Two electroencephalographic (EEG) markers, sleep slow waves and sleep spindles, could address these needs. Both sleep microstructure EEG markers are associated with synaptic plasticity, implicated in memory consolidation, and have reduced expression in depressed individuals. We hypothesize that ECT alleviates depression through enhanced expression of sleep slow waves and sleep spindles, thereby facilitating synaptic reconfiguration in pathologic neural circuits. Methods Correlating ECT Response to EEG Markers (CET-REM) is a single-center, prospective, observational investigation. Wireless wearable headbands with dry EEG electrodes will be utilized for at-home unattended sleep studies to allow calculation of quantitative measures of sleep slow waves (EEG SWA, 0.5-4 Hz power) and sleep spindles (density in number/minute). High-density EEG data will be acquired during ECT to quantify seizure markers. Discussion This innovative study focuses on the longitudinal relationships of sleep microstructure and ECT seizure markers over the treatment course. We anticipate that the results from this study will improve our understanding of ECT.
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- Subha Subramanian
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Department of Neurology, Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Department of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Center on Biological Rhythms and Sleep, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Center on Biological Rhythms and Sleep, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, United States
- Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Neuroimaging Labs Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Center on Biological Rhythms and Sleep, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, United States
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Halonen R, Kuula L, Lahti J, Räikkönen K, Pesonen AK. The association between overnight recognition accuracy and slow oscillation-spindle coupling is moderated by BDNF Val66Met. Behav Brain Res 2022; 428:113889. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2022.113889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2021] [Revised: 03/30/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Avvenuti G, Bernardi G. Local sleep: A new concept in brain plasticity. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2022; 184:35-52. [PMID: 35034748 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-819410-2.00003-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Traditionally, sleep and wakefulness have been considered as two global, mutually exclusive states. However, this view has been challenged by the discovery that sleep and wakefulness are actually locally regulated and that islands of these two states may often coexist in the same individual. Importantly, such a local regulation seems to be the key for many essential functions of sleep, including the maintenance of cognitive efficiency and the consolidation of new skills and memories. Indeed, local changes in sleep-related oscillations occur in brain areas that are used and involved in learning during wakefulness. In turn, these changes directly modulate experience-dependent brain adaptations and the consolidation of newly acquired memories. In line with these observations, alterations in the regional balance between wake- and sleep-like activity have been shown to accompany many pathologic conditions, including psychiatric and neurologic disorders. In the last decade, experimental research has started to shed light on the mechanisms involved in the local regulation of sleep and wakefulness. The results of this research have opened new avenues of investigation regarding the function of sleep and have revealed novel potential targets for the treatment of several pathologic conditions.
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- Giulia Avvenuti
- MoMiLab Research Unit, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy
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- MoMiLab Research Unit, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy.
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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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Boutin A, Doyon J. A sleep spindle framework for motor memory consolidation. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2020; 375:20190232. [PMID: 32248783 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Sleep spindle activity has repeatedly been found to contribute to brain plasticity and consolidation of both declarative and procedural memories. Here we propose a framework for motor memory consolidation that outlines the essential contribution of the hierarchical and multi-scale periodicity of spindle activity, as well as of the synchronization and interaction of brain oscillations during this sleep-dependent process. We posit that the clustering of sleep spindles in 'trains', together with the temporally organized alternation between spindles and associated refractory periods, is critical for efficient reprocessing and consolidation of motor memories. We further argue that the long-term retention of procedural memories relies on the synchronized (functional connectivity) local reprocessing of new information across segregated, but inter-connected brain regions that are involved in the initial learning process. Finally, we propose that oscillatory synchrony in the spindle frequency band may reflect the cross-structural reactivation, reorganization and consolidation of motor, and potentially declarative, memory traces within broader subcortical-cortical networks during sleep. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Memory reactivation: replaying events past, present and future'.
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- Arnaud Boutin
- Université Paris-Saclay, CIAMS, 91405, Orsay, France.,Université d'Orléans, CIAMS, 45067, Orléans, France
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.,Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Characterizing Sleep Spindles in Sheep. eNeuro 2020; 7:ENEURO.0410-19.2020. [PMID: 32122958 PMCID: PMC7082130 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0410-19.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2019] [Revised: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Sleep spindles are distinctive transient patterns of brain activity that typically occur during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep in humans and other mammals. Thought to be important for the consolidation of learning, they may also be useful for indicating the progression of aging and neurodegenerative diseases. The aim of this study was to characterize sleep spindles in sheep (Ovis aries). We recorded electroencephalographs wirelessly from six sheep over a continuous period containing 2 nights and a day. We detected and characterized spindles using an automated algorithm. We found that sheep sleep spindles fell within the classical range seen in humans (10–16 Hz), but we did not see a further separation into fast and slow bands. Spindles were detected predominantly during NREM sleep. Spindle characteristics (frequency, duration, density, topography) varied between individuals, but were similar within individuals between nights. Spindles that occurred during NREM sleep in daytime were indistinguishable from those found during NREM sleep at night. Surprisingly, we also detected numerous spindle-like events during unequivocal periods of wake during the day. These events were mainly local (detected at single sites), and their characteristics differed from spindles detected during sleep. These “wake spindles” are likely to be events that are commonly categorized as “spontaneous alpha activity” during wake. We speculate that wake and sleep spindles are generated via different mechanisms, and that wake spindles play a role in cognitive processes that occur during the daytime.
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Meers J, Ferri R, Bruni O, Alfano CA. Sleep spindle density is associated with worry in children with generalized anxiety disorder and healthy controls. J Affect Disord 2020; 260:418-425. [PMID: 31539675 PMCID: PMC6880871 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.09.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2019] [Revised: 09/06/2019] [Accepted: 09/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Childhood generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), characterized by uncontrollable worry, is associated with long-term psychopathology risk, yet understanding of developmental trajectories is limited. Despite common complaints about sleep, 'macro' sleep abnormalities have not been identified. Emerging findings suggest micro-architectural features of sleep, including sleep spindles, differentiate various psychiatric populations. The current study investigated sleep spindle density during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep among youth with GAD and healthy controls, including relationships with anxiety, worry, global functioning, and subjective sleep quality. METHODS 58 pre-pubertal children, n = 26 with GAD and n = 32 matched healthy controls, aged 7-11 years (M = 8.86, SD=1.47), completed diagnostic assessments and a week of actigraphy monitoring prior to a night of polysomnography (PSG) either at home or in a sleep laboratory. NREM spindle activity was detected in frontal and central regions. RESULTS Sleep spindle activity did not differ based on diagnostic group or sex. Sleep spindles were unassociated with anxiety and sleep quality but showed a significant positive association with worry in all youth. Among youth with GAD, global functioning was negatively associated with spindle density in frontal regions during NREM stage 3. Spindle density was significantly greater during in-lab compared to at-home PSG. LIMITATIONS The small sample size and reliance on only one night of PSG necessitate additional studies. CONCLUSIONS The identified link between spindle activity and worry in pre-pubertal children highlights a need for investigations on transdiagnostic features of child psychopathology rather than specific disorders. Longitudinal studies are needed to explore spindle characteristics and affective risk across development.
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- Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology
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Kam K, Pettibone WD, Shim K, Chen RK, Varga AW. Dynamics of sleep spindles and coupling to slow oscillations following motor learning in adult mice. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2019; 166:107100. [PMID: 31622665 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2019.107100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2019] [Revised: 09/18/2019] [Accepted: 10/11/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Sleep spindles have been implicated in motor learning in human subjects, but their occurrence, timing in relation to cortical slow oscillations, and relationship to offline gains in motor learning have not been examined in animal models. In this study, we recorded EEG over bilateral primary motor cortex in conjunction with EMG for 24 h following a period of either baseline handling or following rotarod motor learning to monitor sleep. We measured several biophysical properties of sleep spindles and their temporal coupling with cortical slow oscillations (SO, <1 Hz) and cortical delta waves (1-4 Hz). Following motor learning, we found an increase in spindles during an early period of NREM sleep (1-4 h) without changes to biophysical properties such as spindle power, peak frequency and coherence. In this same period of early NREM sleep, both SO and delta power increased after motor learning. Notably, a vast majority of spindles were associated with minimal SO power, but in the subset that were associated with significant SO power (>1 z-score above the population mean), spindle-associated SO power was greater in spindles following motor learning compared to baseline sleep. Also, we did not observe a group-level preferred phase in spindle-SO or spindle-delta coupling. While SO power alone was not predictive of motor performance in early NREM sleep, both spindle density and the difference in the magnitude of the mean resultant vector length of the phase angle for SO-associated spindles, a measure of its coupling precision, were positively correlated with offline change in motor performance. These findings support a role for sleep spindles and their coupling to slow oscillations in motor learning and establish a model in which spindle timing and the brain circuits that support offline plasticity can be mechanistically explored.
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- Korey Kam
- 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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- 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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Sitnikova E, Grubov V, Hramov AE. Slow-wave activity preceding the onset of 10-15-Hz sleep spindles and 5-9-Hz oscillations in electroencephalograms in rats with and without absence seizures. J Sleep Res 2019; 29:e12927. [PMID: 31578791 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2019] [Revised: 09/06/2019] [Accepted: 09/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
Abstract
Cortico-thalamocortical networks generate sleep spindles and slow waves during non-rapid eye movement sleep, as well as paroxysmal spike-wave discharges (i.e. electroencephalogram manifestation of absence epilepsy) and 5-9-Hz oscillations in genetic rat models (i.e. pro-epileptic activity). Absence epilepsy is a disorder of the thalamocortical network. We tested a hypothesis that absence epilepsy associates with changes in the slow-wave activity before the onset of sleep spindles and pro-epileptic 5-9-Hz oscillations. The study was performed in the WAG/Rij genetic rat model of absence epilepsy and Wistar rats at the age of 9-12 months. Electroencephalograms were recorded with epidural electrodes from the anterior cortex. Sleep spindles (10-15 Hz), 5-9-Hz oscillations and their slow-wave (2-7 Hz) precursors were automatically detected and analysed using continuous wavelet transform. Subjects with electroencephalogram seizures (the "epileptic" phenotype) and without seizure activity (the "non-epileptic" phenotype) were identified in both strains. It was found that time-amplitude features of sleep spindles and 5-9-Hz oscillations were similar in both rat strains and in both phenotypes. Sleep spindles in "epileptic" rats were more often preceded by the slow-wave (~4 Hz) activity than in "non-epileptic" rats. The intrinsic frequency of slow-wave precursors of sleep spindles and 5-9-Hz oscillations in "epileptic" rats was 1-1.5 Hz higher than in "non-epileptic" rats. In general, our results indicated that absence epilepsy associated with: (a) the reinforcement of slow waves immediately prior to normal sleep spindles; and (b) weakening of amplitude growth in transition "slow wave → spindle/5-9-Hz oscillation".
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- Evgenia Sitnikova
- Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia.,Saratov State Medical University, Saratov, Russia
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Cox R, Mylonas DS, Manoach DS, Stickgold R. Large-scale structure and individual fingerprints of locally coupled sleep oscillations. Sleep 2019; 41:5089926. [PMID: 30184179 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsy175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Slow oscillations and sleep spindles, the canonical electrophysiological oscillations of nonrapid eye movement sleep, are thought to gate incoming sensory information, underlie processes of sleep-dependent memory consolidation, and are altered in various neuropsychiatric disorders. Accumulating evidence of the predominantly local expression of these individual oscillatory rhythms suggests that their cross-frequency interactions may have a similar local component. However, it is unclear whether locally coordinated sleep oscillations exist across the cortex, and whether and how these dynamics differ between fast and slow spindles, and sleep stages. Moreover, substantial individual variability in the expression of both spindles and slow oscillations raises the possibility that their temporal organization shows similar individual differences. Using two nights of multichannel electroencephalography recordings from 24 healthy individuals, we characterized the topography of slow oscillation-spindle coupling. We found that while slow oscillations are highly restricted in spatial extent, the phase of the local slow oscillation modulates local spindle activity at virtually every cortical site. However, coupling dynamics varied with spindle class, sleep stage, and cortical region. Moreover, the slow oscillation phase at which spindles were maximally expressed differed markedly across individuals while remaining stable across nights. These findings both add an important spatial aspect to our understanding of the temporal coupling of sleep oscillations and demonstrate the heterogeneity of coupling dynamics, which must be taken into account when formulating mechanistic accounts of sleep-related memory processing.
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- Roy Cox
- Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.,Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA.,Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.,Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA.,Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.,Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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Kuula L, Tamminen J, Makkonen T, Merikanto I, Räikkönen K, Pesonen AK. Higher sleep spindle activity is associated with fewer false memories in adolescent girls. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2018; 157:96-105. [PMID: 30553019 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2018.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2018] [Revised: 11/14/2018] [Accepted: 12/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Sleep facilitates the extraction of semantic regularities amongst newly encoded memories, which may also lead to increased false memories. We investigated sleep stage proportions and sleep spindles in the recollection of adolescents' false memories, and their potential sex-specific differences. METHODS 196 adolescents (mean age 16.9 y; SD = 0.1, 61% girls) underwent the Deese, Roediger & McDermott (DRM) false memory procedure and overnight polysomnography, with free recall the following morning. Sleep was scored manually into stages 1, 2, 3 and REM. Stage 2 sleep spindle frequency, density, and peak amplitude were used as measures of spindle activity for slow (10-13 Hz) and fast (13-16 Hz) ranges. RESULTS In girls, a lower number of critical lures was associated with higher spindle frequency (p ≤ 0.01), density (p ≤ 0.01), and amplitude (p = 0.03). Additionally, girls' longer sleep duration was associated with more intrusion words (p = 0.03), but not with critical lures. These associations survived adjustment for age, pubertal status, and intelligence. No significant results emerged in boys. CONCLUSIONS In adolescent girls, higher spindle activity was associated with fewer critical lures being falsely recalled in the DRM paradigm. Unlike studies using adult participants, we did not observe any association between slow-wave sleep and false memory recollection.
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- Liisa Kuula
- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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- Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Bernardi G, Siclari F, Handjaras G, Riedner BA, Tononi G. Local and Widespread Slow Waves in Stable NREM Sleep: Evidence for Distinct Regulation Mechanisms. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:248. [PMID: 29970995 PMCID: PMC6018150 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2018] [Accepted: 05/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
Previous work showed that two types of slow waves are temporally dissociated during the transition to sleep: widespread, large and steep slow waves predominate early in the falling asleep period (type I), while smaller, more circumscribed slow waves become more prevalent later (type II). Here, we studied the possible occurrence of these two types of slow waves in stable non-REM (NREM) sleep and explored potential differences in their regulation. A heuristic approach based on slow wave synchronization efficiency was developed and applied to high-density electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings collected during consolidated NREM sleep to identify the potential type I and type II slow waves. Slow waves with characteristics compatible with those previously described for type I and type II were identified in stable NREM sleep. Importantly, these slow waves underwent opposite changes across the night, with only type II slow waves displaying a clear homeostatic regulation. In addition, we showed that the occurrence of type I slow waves was often followed by larger type II slow waves, whereas the occurrence of type II slow waves was usually followed by smaller type I waves. Finally, type II slow waves were associated with a relative increase in spindle activity, while type I slow waves triggered periods of high-frequency activity. Our results provide evidence for the existence of two distinct slow wave synchronization processes that underlie two different types of slow waves. These slow waves may have different functional roles and mark partially distinct “micro-states” of the sleeping brain.
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- Giulio Bernardi
- Center for Investigation and Research on Sleep, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States.,MoMiLab Unit, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy
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- Center for Investigation and Research on Sleep, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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Xi C, Sun S, Pan C, Ji F, Cui X, Li T. Different effects of propofol and dexmedetomidine sedation on electroencephalogram patterns: Wakefulness, moderate sedation, deep sedation and recovery. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0199120. [PMID: 29920532 PMCID: PMC6007908 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2018] [Accepted: 05/31/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Sedation induces changes in electroencephalography (EEG) dynamics. However, the distinct EEG dynamic characteristics at comparable sedation levels have not been well studied, resulting in potential interpretation errors in EEG monitoring during sedation. We aimed to analyze the EEG dynamics of dexmedetomidine and propofol at comparable sedation levels and to explore EEG changes with increased sedation levels for each agent. We measured the Bispectral Index (BIS) and 20-channel EEG under dexmedetomidine and propofol sedation from wakefulness, moderate sedation, and deep sedation to recovery in healthy volunteers (n = 10) in a randomized, 2-day, crossover study. Observer's Assessment of Alertness and Sedation (OAA/S) score was used to assess sedation levels. Despite similar changes in increased delta oscillations, multiple differences in the EEG spatiotemporal dynamics were observed between these two agents. During moderate sedation, both dexmedetomidine and propofol induced increased spindle power; however, dexmedetomidine decreased the global alpha/beta/gamma power, whereas propofol decreased the alpha power in the occipital area and increased the global spindle/beta/gamma power. During deep sedation, dexmedetomidine was associated with increased fronto-central spindle power and decreased global alpha/beta/gamma power, but propofol was associated with increased theta/alpha/spindle/beta power, which was maximized in the frontal area. The transition of topographic alpha/spindle/beta power distribution from moderate sedation to deep sedation completely differed between these two agents. Our study demonstrated that there was a distinct hierarchy of EEG changes with increased sedation depths by propofol and dexmedetomidine. Differences in EEG dynamics at the same sedation level might account for differences in the BIS value and reflect the different sedation mechanisms. EEG-based clinical sedation monitoring should consider the effect of drug types on EEG dynamics.
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- Chunhua Xi
- Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Tongren Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Tongren Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Tongren Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Tongren Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Shijitan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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Prehn-Kristensen A, Böhmig A, Schult J, Pedersen A, Wiesner CD, Baving L. Does Sleep Help Prevent Forgetting Rewarded Memory Representations in Children and Adults? Front Psychol 2018; 9:924. [PMID: 29937745 PMCID: PMC6002505 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2017] [Accepted: 05/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Sleep fosters the consolidation of rewarded memory representations in adults. However, sleep and its memory-supporting functions change through healthy development, and it is unclear whether sleep benefits the consolidation of rewarded memory representations in children as it does in adults. Based on previous findings, we expected sleep to benefit the consolidation of rewarded memory representations in children more than it does in adults. For that reason, 16 children (7–11 years) and 20 adults (21–29 years) participated in this experiment. During the encoding session, participants were asked to learn the location of 18 object pairs. Thereafter, one-half of the object locations were allocated to a high-rewarded condition and the other half to a low-rewarded condition. In the sleep condition, the encoding session took place in the evening (for children 7–8 pm, for adults 8–9 pm). After a fixed retention interval of 12 h the retrieval session was conducted the next morning (for children 7–8 am, for adults 8–9 am). In the wake condition, the time schedule was the same but reversed: the encoding session started in the morning (for children 7–8 am, for adults 8–9 am), and retrieval took place in the evening (for children 7–8 pm, for adults 8–9 pm). Sleep/wake had no impact on the memory performance regarding the low-rewarded memory items. In contrast, wakefulness in comparison to sleep reduced the memory performance on high-rewarded memory items. The interaction between sleep/wake and the degree of reward on memory performance was only significant in children. These results show that 12 h of wakefulness can deteriorate the memory performance for high-rewarded representations, whereas sleep can prevent the forgetting of these rewarded representations. It is discussed whether ontogenetic changes in sleep may play a role in conserving relevant but fragile memory representation.
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- Alexander Prehn-Kristensen
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Centre for Integrative Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Centre for Integrative Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Centre for Integrative Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany.,Department of Psychology, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Centre for Integrative Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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Shimizu RE, Connolly PM, Cellini N, Armstrong DM, Hernandez LT, Estrada R, Aguilar M, Weisend MP, Mednick SC, Simons SB. Closed-Loop Targeted Memory Reactivation during Sleep Improves Spatial Navigation. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:28. [PMID: 29467633 PMCID: PMC5808124 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2017] [Accepted: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Sounds associated with newly learned information that are replayed during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep can improve recall in simple tasks. The mechanism for this improvement is presumed to be reactivation of the newly learned memory during sleep when consolidation takes place. We have developed an EEG-based closed-loop system to precisely deliver sensory stimulation at the time of down-state to up-state transitions during NREM sleep. Here, we demonstrate that applying this technology to participants performing a realistic navigation task in virtual reality results in a significant improvement in navigation efficiency after sleep that is accompanied by increases in the spectral power especially in the fast (12-15 Hz) sleep spindle band. Our results show promise for the application of sleep-based interventions to drive improvement in real-world tasks.
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States.,Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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- Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, Durham, NC, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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Ahuja S, Chen RK, Kam K, Pettibone WD, Osorio RS, Varga AW. Role of normal sleep and sleep apnea in human memory processing. Nat Sci Sleep 2018; 10:255-269. [PMID: 30214331 PMCID: PMC6128282 DOI: 10.2147/nss.s125299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
A fundamental problem in the field of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and memory is that it has historically minimized the basic neurobiology of sleep's role in memory. Memory formation has been classically divided into phases of encoding, processing/consolidation, and retrieval. An abundance of evidence suggests that sleep plays a critical role specifically in the processing/consolidation phase, but may do so differentially for memories that were encoded using particular brain circuits. In this review, we discuss some of the more established evidence for sleep's function in the processing of declarative, spatial navigational, emotional, and motor/procedural memories and more emerging evidence highlighting sleep's importance in higher order functions such as probabilistic learning, transitive inference, and category/gist learning. Furthermore, we discuss sleep's capacity for memory augmentation through targeted/cued memory reactivation. OSA - by virtue of its associated sleep fragmentation, intermittent hypoxia, and potential brain structural effects - is well positioned to specifically impact the processing/consolidation phase, but testing this possibility requires experimental paradigms in which memory encoding and retrieval are separated by a period of sleep with and without the presence of OSA. We argue that such paradigms should focus on the specific types of memory tasks for which sleep has been shown to have a significant effect. We discuss the small number of studies in which this has been done, in which OSA nearly uniformly negatively impacts offline memory processing. When periods of offline processing are minimal or absent and do not contain sleep, as is the case in the broad literature on OSA and memory, the effects of OSA on memory are far less consistent.
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- Shilpi Ahuja
- Mount Sinai Integrative Sleep Center, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 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, 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, 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, USA,
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- Center for Brain Health, Department of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, 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, USA,
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