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Baena D, Toor B, van den Berg NH, Ray LB, Fogel SM. Spindle-slow wave coupling and problem-solving skills: impact of age. Sleep 2024; 47:zsae072. [PMID: 38477166 PMCID: PMC11236953 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsae072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2023] [Revised: 02/06/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
Abstract
We examined how aging affects the role of sleep in the consolidation of newly learned cognitive strategies. Forty healthy young adults (20-35 years) and 30 healthy older adults (60-85 years) were included. Participants were trained on the Tower of Hanoi (ToH) task, then, half of each age group were assigned to either the 90-minute nap condition, or stayed awake, before retesting. The temporal co-occurrence between slow waves (SW) and sleep spindles (SP) during non-rapid eye movement sleep was examined as a function of age in relation to memory consolidation of problem-solving skills. We found that despite intact learning, older adults derived a reduced benefit of sleep for problem-solving skills relative to younger adults. As expected, the percentage of coupled spindles was lower in older compared to younger individuals from control to testing sessions. Furthermore, coupled spindles in young adults were more strongly coupled to the SW upstate compared to older individuals. Coupled spindles in older individuals were lower in amplitude (mean area under the curve; μV) compared to the young group. Lastly, there was a significant relationship between offline gains in accuracy on the ToH and percent change of spindles coupled to the upstate of the slow wave in older, but not younger adults. Multiple regression revealed that age accounted for differences in offline gains in accuracy, as did spindle coupling during the upstate. These results suggest that with aging, spindle-slow wave coupling decreases. However, the degree of the preservation of coupling with age correlates with the extent of problem-solving skill consolidation during sleep.
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- Daniel Baena
- School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Sleep Unit, The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Sleep Unit, The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Hong X, Farmer C, Kozhemiako N, Holmes GL, Thompson L, Manwaring S, Thurm A, Buckley A. Differences in Sleep EEG Coherence and Spindle Metrics in Toddlers With and Without Language Delay: A Prospective Observational Study. RESEARCH SQUARE 2024:rs.3.rs-3904113. [PMID: 38410470 PMCID: PMC10896365 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3904113/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
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Background Sleep plays a crucial role in early language development, and sleep disturbances are common in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Examining sleep microarchitecture in toddlers with and without language delays can offer key insights into neurophysiological abnormalities associated with atypical neurodevelopmental trajectories and potentially aid in early detection and intervention. Methods Here, we investigated electroencephalogram (EEG) coherence and sleep spindles in 16 toddlers with language delay (LD) compared with a group of 39 typically developing (TD) toddlers. The sample was majority male (n = 34, 62%). Participants were aged 12-to-22 months at baseline, and 34 (LD, n=11; TD, n=23) participants were evaluated again at 36 months of age. Results LD toddlers demonstrated increased EEG coherence compared to TD toddlers, with differences most prominent during slow-wave sleep. Within the LD group, lower expressive language skills were associated with higher coherence in REM sleep. Within the TD group, lower expressive language skills were associated with higher coherence in slow-wave sleep. Sleep spindle density, duration, and frequency changed between baseline and follow-up for both groups, with the LD group demonstrating a smaller magnitude of change than the TD group. The direction of change was frequency-dependent for both groups. Conclusions These findings indicate that atypical sleep EEG connectivity and sleep spindle development can be detected in toddlers between 12 and 36 months and offers insights into neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders. Trial registration https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01339767; Registration date: 4/20/2011.
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- Xinyi Hong
- National Institute of Mental Health Division of Intramural Research Programs: National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program
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- National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program
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- Washington State University Elson S Floyd College of Medicine
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- University of Utah Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
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- National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program
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- National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program
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Witte MA, Lloyd RM, McGree M, Kawai Y. Sleep quantity and quality of critically ill children perceived by caregivers and bedside nursing staff: a pilot study. J Clin Sleep Med 2023; 19:2027-2033. [PMID: 37539642 PMCID: PMC10692947 DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.10750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023]
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STUDY OBJECTIVES Sleep is crucial for healing but often impaired in the pediatric intensive care unit due to environmental disruptions. Caregivers and bedside nursing staff are often most aware of these factors and the impact on patient sleep, but studies have not yet compared their perceptions. METHODS Caregivers and bedside nursing staff of pediatric patients staying a second night in the pediatric intensive care unit were asked to complete a survey regarding environmental factors (ie, temperature, light, sound, nursing staff room entries), sleep quality, and sleep quantity (ie, sleep duration, number of naps) of the pediatric patient. Caregivers were asked similar questions about their child's sleep at home. RESULTS The caregivers and nursing staff of 31 pediatric patients participated in this pilot study. There was no significant difference between caregiver and nursing staff ratings of sleep quality, sleep duration, number of naps, room temperature, sound, or light (P > .05 for all). Nursing staff did report significantly more room entries than caregivers (P = .01). Compared to sleep at home, caregivers reported sleep in the hospital to be of lower quality (P = .009) with more frequent room entries (P = .01). CONCLUSIONS Caregivers rate their child's sleep in the pediatric intensive care unit as lower quality than sleep at home. Caregivers and bedside nursing staff largely agree about pediatric patient sleep quality and quantity as well as environmental factors. This agreement may facilitate further research and interventions at improving sleep in the pediatric intensive care unit. CITATION Witte MA, Lloyd RM, McGree M, Kawai Y. Sleep quantity and quality of critically ill children perceived by caregivers and bedside nursing staff: a pilot study. J Clin Sleep Med. 2023;19(12):2027-2033.
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- Micaela A. Witte
- Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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Halász P, Szũcs A. Self-limited childhood epilepsies are disorders of the perisylvian communication system, carrying the risk of progress to epileptic encephalopathies-Critical review. Front Neurol 2023; 14:1092244. [PMID: 37388546 PMCID: PMC10301767 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1092244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 04/04/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023] Open
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"Sleep plasticity is a double-edged sword: a powerful machinery of neural build-up, with a risk to epileptic derailment." We aimed to review the types of self-limited focal epilepsies..."i.e. keep as two separate paragraphs" We aimed to review the types of self-limited focal epilepsies: (1) self-limited focal childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes, (2) atypical Rolandic epilepsy, and (3) electrical status epilepticus in sleep with mental consequences, including Landau-Kleffner-type acquired aphasia, showing their spectral relationship and discussing the debated topics. Our endeavor is to support the system epilepsy concept in this group of epilepsies, using them as models for epileptogenesis in general. The spectral continuity of the involved conditions is evidenced by several features: language impairment, the overarching presence of centrotemporal spikes and ripples (with changing electromorphology across the spectrum), the essential timely and spatial independence of interictal epileptic discharges from seizures, NREM sleep relatedness, and the existence of the intermediate-severity "atypical" forms. These epilepsies might be the consequences of a genetically determined transitory developmental failure, reflected by widespread neuropsychological symptoms originating from the perisylvian network that have distinct time and space relations from secondary epilepsy itself. The involved epilepsies carry the risk of progression to severe, potentially irreversible encephalopathic forms.
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- Péter Halász
- Department of Neurology, University Medical School, Pécs, Hungary
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- Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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Contreras MP, Fechner J, Born J, Inostroza M. Accelerating Maturation of Spatial Memory Systems by Experience: Evidence from Sleep Oscillation Signatures of Memory Processing. J Neurosci 2023; 43:3509-3519. [PMID: 36931711 PMCID: PMC10184732 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1967-22.2023] [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: 10/19/2022] [Revised: 01/06/2023] [Accepted: 01/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/19/2023] Open
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During early development, memory systems gradually mature over time, in parallel with the gradual accumulation of knowledge. Yet, it is unknown whether and to what extent maturation is driven by discrete experience. Sleep is thought to contribute to the formation of long-term memory and knowledge through a systems consolidation process that is driven by specific sleep oscillations (i.e., ripples, spindles, and slow oscillations) in cortical and hippocampal networks. Based on these oscillatory signatures, we show here in rats that discrete spatial experience speeds the functional maturation of spatial memory systems during development. Juvenile male rats were exposed for 5 min periods to changes in the spatial configuration of two identical objects on postnatal day (PD)25, PD27, and PD29 (Spatial experience group), while a Control group was exposed on these occasions to the same two objects without changing their positions. On PD31, both groups were tested on a classical Object Place Recognition (OPR) task with a 3 h retention interval during which the sleep-associated EEG and hippocampal local field potentials were recorded. On PD31, consistent with forgoing studies, Control rats still did not express OPR memory. By contrast, rats with Spatial experience formed significant OPR memory and, in parallel, displayed an increased percentage of hippocampal ripples coupled to parietal slow oscillation-spindle complexes, and a stronger ripple-spindle phase-locking during the retention sleep. Our findings support the idea that experience promotes the maturation of memory systems during development by enhancing cortico-hippocampal information exchange and the formation of integrated knowledge representations during sleep.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Cognitive and memory capabilities mature early in life. We show here that and how discrete spatial experience contributes to this process. Using a simple recognition paradigm in developing rats, we found that exposure of the rat pups to three short-lasting experiences enhances spatial memory capabilities to adult-like levels. The adult-like capability of building spatial memory was connected to a more precise coupling of ripples in the hippocampus with slow oscillation-spindle complexes in the thalamo-cortical system when the memory was formed during sleep. Our findings support the view that discrete experience accelerates maturation of cognitive and memory capabilities by enhancing the dialogue between hippocampus and cortex when these experiences are reprocessed during sleep.
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- María P Contreras
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 72076, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 72076, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 72076, Germany
- German Center for Diabetes Research, Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases of the Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 72076, Germany
- Werner Reichert Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 72076, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 72076, Germany
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Zhang W, Xin M, Song G, Liang J. Childhood absence epilepsy patients with cognitive impairment have decreased sleep spindle density. Sleep Med 2023; 103:89-97. [PMID: 36773472 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2023.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Revised: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/15/2023] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To explore the differences in sleep spindle (SS) characteristics during stage N2 sleep between children with childhood absence epilepsy and healthy controls, and between children with childhood absence epilepsy with or without cognitive impairment. METHODS We recruited 29 children (14 females, 15 males, mean age: 8 (2.5) years) with childhood absence epilepsy who did not undergone antiseizure treatments previously and 30 age-matched controls (14 females, 16 males, mean age: 9 (3.0) years). For all patients, data on medical history were collected. Each child was monitored overnight by long-term video electroencephalography and was evaluated by the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition. Next, we compared anterior SS characteristics, including density, frequency, cycle length, duration, amplitude, and percentage of sleep stages. RESULTS The childhood absence epilepsy group exhibited lower spindle density and duration in the first 37.5 min of stage N2 sleep than the control group (P < 0.01). A decrease in spindle density could be observed in the childhood absence epilepsy group with aggravated cognition impairment. The spindle density was substantially lower in the cognitively impaired group than in the cognitively unimpaired group (P < 0.01). No significant differences were observed in SS amplitude, SS frequency, SS cycle length, and the distribution of sleep stages. CONCLUSIONS Reduction in spindle density and duration is associated with the mechanisms underlying childhood absence epilepsy. The deficit in SS density is related with impaired cognition. This deficiency in SSs may be a useful predictive indicator of cognitive impairment in children with absence epilepsy, indicating that SSs may become a useful biomarker and potential adjuvant anti-seizure target for cognitive impairment caused by childhood absence epilepsy.
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- Wei Zhang
- Department of Pediatric Neurology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China; Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Pediatric Neurology, Changchun, China.
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China; Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Pediatric Neurology, Changchun, China.
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- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China; Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Pediatric Neurology, Changchun, China.
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García-Pérez MA, Irani M, Tiznado V, Bustamante T, Inostroza M, Maldonado PE, Valdés JL. Cortico-Hippocampal Oscillations Are Associated With the Developmental Onset of Hippocampal-Dependent Memory. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:891523. [PMID: 35812209 PMCID: PMC9260104 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.891523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Hippocampal-dependent memories emerge late during postnatal development, aligning with hippocampal maturation. During sleep, the two-stage memory formation model states that through hippocampal-neocortical interactions, cortical slow-oscillations (SO), thalamocortical Spindles, and hippocampal sharp-wave ripples (SWR) are synchronized, allowing for the consolidation of hippocampal-dependent memories. However, evidence supporting this hypothesis during development is still lacking. Therefore, we performed successive object-in-place tests during a window of memory emergence and recorded in vivo the occurrence of SO, Spindles, and SWR during sleep, immediately after the memory encoding stage of the task. We found that hippocampal-dependent memory emerges at the end of the 4th postnatal week independently of task overtraining. Furthermore, we observed that those animals with better performance in the memory task had increased Spindle density and duration and lower density of SWR. Moreover, we observed changes in the SO-Spindle and Spindle-SWR temporal-coupling during this developmental period. Our results provide new evidence for the onset of hippocampal-dependent memory and its relationship to the oscillatory phenomenon occurring during sleep that helps us understand how memory consolidation models fit into the early stages of postnatal development.
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- María A. García-Pérez
- Departamento de Neurociencia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Departamento de Psiquiatría, Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Biomedical Neuroscience Institute (BNI), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Psiquiatría, Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Psiquiatría, Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencias UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Neurociencia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Biomedical Neuroscience Institute (BNI), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Departamento de Neurociencia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Biomedical Neuroscience Institute (BNI), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- National Center for Artificial Intelligence, CENIA, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Neurociencia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Biomedical Neuroscience Institute (BNI), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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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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Mylonas D, Machado S, Larson O, Patel R, Cox R, Vangel M, Maski K, Stickgold R, Manoach DS. Dyscoordination of non-rapid eye movement sleep oscillations in autism spectrum disorder. Sleep 2022; 45:6505127. [DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsac010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2021] [Revised: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
Study Objectives
Converging evidence from neuroimaging, sleep, and genetic studies suggest that dysregulation of thalamocortical interactions mediated by the thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN) contribute to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Sleep spindles assay TRN function, and their coordination with cortical slow oscillations (SOs) indexes thalamocortical communication. These oscillations mediate memory consolidation during sleep. In the present study, we comprehensively characterized spindles and their coordination with SOs in relation to memory and age in children with ASD.
Methods
Nineteen children and adolescents with ASD, without intellectual disability, and 18 typically developing (TD) peers, aged 9–17, completed a home polysomnography study with testing on a spatial memory task before and after sleep. Spindles, SOs, and their coordination were characterized during stages 2 (N2) and 3 (N3) non-rapid eye movement sleep.
Results
ASD participants showed disrupted SO-spindle coordination during N2 sleep. Spindles peaked later in SO upstates and their timing was less consistent. They also showed a spindle density (#/min) deficit during N3 sleep. Both groups showed significant sleep-dependent memory consolidation, but their relations with spindle density differed. While TD participants showed the expected positive correlations, ASD participants showed the opposite.
Conclusions
The disrupted SO-spindle coordination and spindle deficit provide further evidence of abnormal thalamocortical interactions and TRN dysfunction in ASD. The inverse relations of spindle density with memory suggest a different function for spindles in ASD than TD. We propose that abnormal sleep oscillations reflect genetically mediated disruptions of TRN-dependent thalamocortical circuit development that contribute to the manifestations of ASD and are potentially treatable.
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- Dimitrios Mylonas
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam,The Netherlands
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- Department of Biostatistics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA,USA
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- Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA
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Al Dera H. Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying autism spectrum disorders and associated comorbidities: A pathophysiological review. Biomed Pharmacother 2022; 148:112688. [PMID: 35149383 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2022.112688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2021] [Revised: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 02/01/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a group of neurodevelopmental disorders that develop in early life due to interaction between several genetic and environmental factors and lead to alterations in brain function and structure. During the last decades, several mechanisms have been placed to explain the pathogenesis of autism. Unfortunately, these are reported in several studies and reviews which make it difficult to follow by the reader. In addition, some recent molecular mechanisms related to ASD have been unrevealed. This paper revises and highlights the major common molecular mechanisms responsible for the clinical symptoms seen in people with ASD, including the roles of common genetic factors and disorders, neuroinflammation, GABAergic signaling, and alterations in Ca+2 signaling. Besides, it covers the major molecular mechanisms and signaling pathways involved in initiating the epileptic seizure, including the alterations in the GABAergic and glutamate signaling, vitamin and mineral deficiency, disorders of metabolism, and autoimmunity. Finally, this review also discusses sleep disorder patterns and the molecular mechanisms underlying them.
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- Hussain Al Dera
- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine at King Saud, Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Tarokh L. Sleep: Twitch in tempo. Curr Biol 2021; 31:R953-R954. [PMID: 34375598 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Sudden bursts of jerky movements during sleep, called twitches, aid early developmental brain wiring in mice. Translating these findings to humans, a new study reveals that quiet sleep twitches increase in early infancy and coordinate with sleep spindles to establish functional connectivity.
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- Leila Tarokh
- University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, 3000 Bern, Switzerland.
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Bitzenhofer SH, Pöpplau JA, Chini M, Marquardt A, Hanganu-Opatz IL. A transient developmental increase in prefrontal activity alters network maturation and causes cognitive dysfunction in adult mice. Neuron 2021; 109:1350-1364.e6. [PMID: 33675685 PMCID: PMC8063718 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2020] [Revised: 01/06/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
Disturbed neuronal activity in neuropsychiatric pathologies emerges during development and might cause multifold neuronal dysfunction by interfering with apoptosis, dendritic growth, and synapse formation. However, how altered electrical activity early in life affects neuronal function and behavior in adults is unknown. Here, we address this question by transiently increasing the coordinated activity of layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex of neonatal mice and monitoring long-term functional and behavioral consequences. We show that increased activity during early development causes premature maturation of pyramidal neurons and affects interneuronal density. Consequently, altered inhibitory feedback by fast-spiking interneurons and excitation/inhibition imbalance in prefrontal circuits of young adults result in weaker evoked synchronization of gamma frequency. These structural and functional changes ultimately lead to poorer mnemonic and social abilities. Thus, prefrontal activity during early development actively controls the cognitive performance of adults and might be critical for cognitive symptoms in neuropsychiatric diseases.
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- Sebastian H Bitzenhofer
- Institute of Developmental Neurophysiology, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
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- Institute of Developmental Neurophysiology, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Neurophysiology, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Neurophysiology, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Neurophysiology, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
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Manoach DS, Mylonas D, Baxter B. Targeting sleep oscillations to improve memory in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2020; 221:63-70. [PMID: 32014359 PMCID: PMC7316628 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2020.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Revised: 01/06/2020] [Accepted: 01/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Although schizophrenia is defined by waking phenomena, a growing literature documents a deficit in sleep spindles, a defining oscillation of stage 2 non-rapid eye movement sleep. Compelling evidence supports an important role for spindles in cognition, and particularly memory. In schizophrenia, although the spindle deficit correlates with impaired sleep-dependent memory consolidation, recent clinical trials find that increasing spindles does not improve memory. This may reflect that sleep-dependent memory consolidation relies not on spindles alone, but also on their precise temporal coordination with cortical slow oscillations and hippocampal sharp-wave ripples. Consequently, interventions to improve memory in schizophrenia must not only increase spindles, but also preserve or enhance slow oscillations, hippocampal ripples and their temporal relations. Because hippocampal ripples and the activity of the thalamic spindle generator are difficult to measure noninvasively, screening potential interventions requires complementary animal and human studies. In this review we (i) propose that sleep oscillations are novel pathophysiological targets for therapy to improve cognition in schizophrenia; (ii) summarize our understanding of how these oscillations interact to consolidate memory; (iii) suggest that a systems neuroscience strategy is essential to selecting and evaluating effective treatments, and illustrate this with findings from clinical trials; and (iv) selectively review the interventional literature relevant to sleep and cognition, covering both pharmacological and noninvasive brain stimulation approaches. We conclude that coordinated sleep oscillations are promising targets for improving cognition in schizophrenia and that effective therapies will need to preserve or enhance sleep oscillatory dynamics and restore function at the network level.
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- Dara S Manoach
- Department of Psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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Gerstenberg M, Furrer M, Tesler N, Franscini M, Walitza S, Huber R. Reduced sleep spindle density in adolescent patients with early-onset schizophrenia compared to major depressive disorder and healthy controls. Schizophr Res 2020; 221:20-28. [PMID: 31924372 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2019.11.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2019] [Revised: 11/27/2019] [Accepted: 11/30/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVES During adolescence schizophrenia and major depressive disorder (MDD) increasingly emerge. Overlapping symptomatology during first presentation challenges the diagnostic process. Reduced sleep spindle density (SSD) was suggested as a biomarker in adults, discerning patients with schizophrenia from patients with depression or healthy controls (HC). We aimed to compare SSD in early-onset schizophrenia (EOS), with MDD, and HC, and to analyse associations of SSD with symptomatology and neurocognitive measures. METHODS Automatic sleep spindle detection was performed on all-night high-density EEG (128 electrodes) data of 12 EOS, 19 MDD, and 57 HC (age range 9.8-19), allowing an age- and sex-matching of 1:2 (patients vs. HC). Severity of current symptoms and neurocognitive variables were assessed in all patients. RESULTS SSD was defined between 13.75 and 14.50 Hz as within this frequency range SSD differed between EOS vs. HC in bin by bin analyses (12-15 Hz). In EOS, SSD was lower over 27 centro-temporal electrodes compared to HC and over 9 central electrodes compared to MDD. Reduced SSD in EOS compared to MDD and HC was accompanied by a high variability of SSD in all adolescents. SSD did not differ between MDD and HC. In the pooled sample of patients, lower SSD was associated with more severe Positive and Negative Symptoms Scale total score, more impaired memory consolidation and processing speed. CONCLUSION A high variability of SSD in all adolescents may reflect the evolving character of SSD. The association of reduced SSD with the symptom dimension of impaired cognition cuts across diagnostical entities.
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- Miriam Gerstenberg
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Child Development Center, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Child Development Center, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland; Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland; Child Development Center, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Peyrache A, Seibt J. A mechanism for learning with sleep spindles. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2020; 375:20190230. [PMID: 32248788 PMCID: PMC7209910 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Spindles are ubiquitous oscillations during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. A growing body of evidence points to a possible link with learning and memory, and the underlying mechanisms are now starting to be unveiled. Specifically, spindles are associated with increased dendritic activity and high intracellular calcium levels, a situation favourable to plasticity, as well as with control of spiking output by feed-forward inhibition. During spindles, thalamocortical networks become unresponsive to inputs, thus potentially preventing interference between memory-related internal information processing and extrinsic signals. At the system level, spindles are co-modulated with other major NREM oscillations, including hippocampal sharp wave-ripples (SWRs) and neocortical slow waves, both previously shown to be associated with learning and memory. The sequential occurrence of reactivation at the time of SWRs followed by neuronal plasticity-promoting spindles is a possible mechanism to explain NREM sleep-dependent consolidation of memories. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Memory reactivation: replaying events past, present and future'.
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- Adrien Peyrache
- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 1A1
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- Surrey Sleep Research Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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Does sleep contribute to the consolidation of motor memory? MANUELLE MEDIZIN 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s00337-020-00674-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Background
It has been assumed that sleep promotes consolidation in motor learning; however, some publications have questioned its supposed effect. Differentiated statements on the subject are difficult because the conglomerate of influencing factors is large. The fact that memory, sleep, consolidation and motor task can be considered generic terms for different processes also contributes to the complexity.
Objective
The aim of this literature overview is to clarify the terminology and to describe what is known about how sleep contributes to the consolidation of motor memory regarding the different characteristics of consolidation and motor tasks.
Methods
A first literature screening in PubMed included the terms consolidation, sleep, memory, motor learning and memory in various combinations. Furthermore, keywords describing distinct parts of the generic terms were used for searching.
Results
The current evidence for the dependency of the different neurophysiological characteristics of the generic terms on sleep is presented including resulting contradictions and methodological criticism. Based on the literature, the question whether sleep promotes consolidation can only be answered in reductionist approaches and for individual influencing factors. The results even suggest that improvements in exercise quality may have been achieved through errors in study design, which, however, may lead to recommendations for future studies.
Conclusion
No final statement can be made on the subject at this time; however, at least it can be considered as evidence-based that sleep does not harm motor memory consolidation.
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Gorgoni M, Scarpelli S, Reda F, De Gennaro L. Sleep EEG oscillations in neurodevelopmental disorders without intellectual disabilities. Sleep Med Rev 2020; 49:101224. [PMID: 31731102 DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2019.101224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2019] [Revised: 08/29/2019] [Accepted: 10/15/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Gorgoni M, D'Atri A, Scarpelli S, Reda F, De Gennaro L. Sleep electroencephalography and brain maturation: developmental trajectories and the relation with cognitive functioning. Sleep Med 2020; 66:33-50. [PMID: 31786427 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2019.06.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2019] [Revised: 06/24/2019] [Accepted: 06/25/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- M Gorgoni
- Department of Psychology, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy; IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy.
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Pesonen AK, Merikanto I, Halonen R, Ujma P, Makkonen T, Räikkönen K, Lahti J, Kuula L. Polygenic impact of morningness on the overnight dynamics of sleep spindle amplitude. GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR 2020; 19:e12641. [PMID: 31925898 DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2019] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sleep spindles are thalamocortical oscillations that contribute to sleep maintenance and sleep-related brain plasticity. The current study is an explorative study of the circadian dynamics of sleep spindles in relation to a polygenic score (PGS) for circadian preference towards morningness. The participants represent the 17-year follow-up of a birth cohort having both genome-wide data and an ambulatory sleep electroencephalography measurement available ( N = 154, Mean age = 16.9, SD = 0.1 years, 57% girls). Based on a recent genome-wide association study, we calculated a PGS for circadian preference towards morningness across the whole genome, including 354 single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Stage 2 slow (9-12.5 Hz, N = 186 739) and fast (12.5-16 Hz, N = 135 504) sleep spindles were detected using an automated algorithm with individual time tags and amplitudes for each spindle. There was a significant interaction of PGS for morningness and timing of sleep spindles across the night. These growth curve models showed a curvilinear trajectory of spindle amplitudes: those with a higher PGS for morningness showed higher slow spindle amplitudes in frontal derivations, and a faster dissipation of spindle amplitude in central derivations. Overall, the findings provide new evidence on how individual sleep spindle trajectories are influenced by genetic factors associated with circadian type. The finding may lead to new hypotheses on the associations previously observed between circadian types, psychiatric problems and spindle activity.
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- Anu-Katriina Pesonen
- SleepWell Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- SleepWell Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- SleepWell Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.,Epilepsy Centre, National Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Budapest, Hungary
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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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- SleepWell Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Sleep spindles are burstlike signals in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of the sleeping mammalian brain and electrical surface correlates of neuronal oscillations in thalamus. As one of the most inheritable sleep EEG signatures, sleep spindles probably reflect the strength and malleability of thalamocortical circuits that underlie individual cognitive profiles. We review the characteristics, organization, regulation, and origins of sleep spindles and their implication in non-rapid-eye-movement sleep (NREMS) and its functions, focusing on human and rodent. Spatially, sleep spindle-related neuronal activity appears on scales ranging from small thalamic circuits to functional cortical areas, and generates a cortical state favoring intracortical plasticity while limiting cortical output. Temporally, sleep spindles are discrete events, part of a continuous power band, and elements grouped on an infraslow time scale over which NREMS alternates between continuity and fragility. We synthesize diverse and seemingly unlinked functions of sleep spindles for sleep architecture, sensory processing, synaptic plasticity, memory formation, and cognitive abilities into a unifying sleep spindle concept, according to which sleep spindles 1) generate neural conditions of large-scale functional connectivity and plasticity that outlast their appearance as discrete EEG events, 2) appear preferentially in thalamic circuits engaged in learning and attention-based experience during wakefulness, and 3) enable a selective reactivation and routing of wake-instated neuronal traces between brain areas such as hippocampus and cortex. Their fine spatiotemporal organization reflects NREMS as a physiological state coordinated over brain and body and may indicate, if not anticipate and ultimately differentiate, pathologies in sleep and neurodevelopmental, -degenerative, and -psychiatric conditions.
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- Laura M J Fernandez
- Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Halonen R, Kuula L, Lahti J, Makkonen T, Räikkönen K, Pesonen AK. BDNF Val66Met polymorphism moderates the association between sleep spindles and overnight visual recognition. Behav Brain Res 2019; 375:112157. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2019] [Revised: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 08/17/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Given the prevalence of sleep in early development, any satisfactory account of infant brain activity must consider what happens during sleep. Only recently, however, has it become possible to record sleep-related brain activity in newborn rodents. Using such methods in rat pups, it is now clear that sleep, more so than wake, provides a critical context for the processing of sensory input and the expression of functional connectivity throughout the sensorimotor system. In addition, sleep uniquely reveals functional activity in the developing primary motor cortex, which establishes a somatosensory map long before its role in motor control emerges. These findings will inform our understanding of the developmental processes that contribute to the nascent sense of embodiment in human infants.
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Grieve PG, Fifer WP, Cousy NP, Monk CE, Stark RI, Gingrich JA, Myers MM. Neonatal infant EEG bursts are altered by prenatal maternal depression and serotonin selective reuptake inhibitor use. Clin Neurophysiol 2019; 130:2019-2025. [PMID: 31539768 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2019.08.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2019] [Revised: 08/03/2019] [Accepted: 08/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Increasingly, serotonin selective reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medications are prescribed in pregnancy. These medications pass freely into the developing fetus but little is known about their effect on brain development in humans. In this study we determine if prenatal maternal depression and SSRI medication change the EEG infant delta brush bursts which are an early marker of normal brain maturation. METHODS We measured delta brush bursts from the term infants of three groups of mothers (controls (N = 52), depressed untreated (N = 15), and those taking serotonin SSRI medication (N = 10). High density EEGs were obtained during sleep at an average age of 44 weeks post conceptional age. We measured the rate of occurrence, brush amplitude, oscillation frequency and duration of the bursts. RESULTS Compared to infants of control mothers, the parameters of delta brush bursts of the offspring of depressed and SSRI-using mothers are significantly altered: burst amplitude is decreased; the oscillation frequency increased, and the duration increased (SSRI only). These significant differences were found during both sleep states. CONCLUSIONS Electrocortical bursting activity (i.e. delta brushes) is known to play an important role in early central nervous system (CNS) synaptic formation and function. SIGNIFICANCE Maternal depression or SSRI use may alter brain function in their offspring.
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- P G Grieve
- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Cape Services, 22 rue Pierre Mendès, Torcy 77200, France
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Columbia University Medical Center, Psychiatry, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Columbia University Medical Center, Psychiatry, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Increased Thalamocortical Connectivity in Schizophrenia Correlates With Sleep Spindle Deficits: Evidence for a Common Pathophysiology. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2019; 4:706-714. [PMID: 31262708 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2019.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2019] [Revised: 04/06/2019] [Accepted: 04/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND Converging evidence implicates abnormal thalamocortical interactions in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. This evidence includes consistent findings of increased resting-state functional connectivity of the thalamus with somatosensory and motor cortex during wake and reduced spindle activity during sleep. We hypothesized that these abnormalities would be correlated, reflecting a common mechanism: reduced inhibition of thalamocortical neurons by the thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN). The TRN is the major inhibitory nucleus of the thalamus and is abnormal in schizophrenia. Reduced TRN inhibition would be expected to lead to increased and less filtered thalamic relay of sensory and motor information to the cortex during wake and reduced burst firing necessary for spindle initiation during sleep. METHODS Overnight polysomnography and resting-state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging were performed in 26 outpatients with schizophrenia and 30 demographically matched healthy individuals. We examined the relations of sleep spindle density during stage 2 non-rapid eye movement sleep with connectivity of the thalamus to the cortex during wakeful rest. RESULTS As in prior studies, patients with schizophrenia exhibited increased functional connectivity of the thalamus with bilateral somatosensory and motor cortex and reduced sleep spindle density. Spindle density inversely correlated with thalamocortical connectivity, including in somotosensory and motor cortex, regardless of diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS These findings link two biomarkers of schizophrenia-the sleep spindle density deficit and abnormally increased thalamocortical functional connectivity-and point to deficient TRN inhibition as a plausible mechanism. If TRN-mediated thalamocortical dysfunction increases risk for schizophrenia and contributes to its manifestations, understanding its mechanism could guide the development of targeted interventions.
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Merikanto I, Kuula L, Makkonen T, Salmela L, Räikkönen K, Pesonen AK. Autistic Traits Are Associated With Decreased Activity of Fast Sleep Spindles During Adolescence. J Clin Sleep Med 2019; 15:401-407. [PMID: 30853050 DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.7662] [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: 08/21/2018] [Accepted: 10/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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STUDY OBJECTIVES Autistic traits present a continuum from mild symptoms to severe disorder and have been associated with a high prevalence of sleep problems. Sleep spindles have a key function in sleep maintenance and in brain plasticity. Previous studies have found decreased spindle activity in clinical autism. Here we examine the associations between the entire range of autistic traits and sleep spindle activity in a nonclinical community cohort of adolescents. METHODS Our cohort is based on 172 adolescents born in 1998 (58.7% girls, mean age = 16.9 years, standard deviation = 0.1), who filled in the adult autism-spectrum quotient (AQ), consisting of total score, and social interaction and attention to details subscales. Participants underwent an ambulatory overnight sleep electroencephalography. Sleep spindles (amplitude, duration, density, and intensity) were automatically detected from stage N2 sleep, and divided to slow and fast spindles. RESULTS Higher AQ total sum and social interaction sum associated with lower fast spindle amplitude and intensity (P < .04). No associations were observed for attention to details. CONCLUSIONS Our findings indicate that a higher level of autistic traits in the nonclinical range among generally healthy adolescents associate with similar alterations in sleep spindle activity as observed in many neuropsychiatric conditions, indicating lower sleep-related brain plasticity. This indicates that sleep microstructures form a continuum that follows self-reported symptoms of autism.
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- Ilona Merikanto
- SleepWell Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.,Orton Orthopaedics Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- SleepWell Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- SleepWell Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- SleepWell Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- SleepWell Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- SleepWell Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Murata Y, Colonnese MT. Thalamic inhibitory circuits and network activity development. Brain Res 2019; 1706:13-23. [PMID: 30366019 PMCID: PMC6363901 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.10.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Revised: 09/30/2018] [Accepted: 10/22/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Inhibitory circuits in thalamus and cortex shape the major activity patterns observed by electroencephalogram (EEG) in the adult brain. Their delayed maturation and circuit integration, relative to excitatory neurons, suggest inhibitory neuronal development could be responsible for the onset of mature thalamocortical activity. Indeed, the immature brain lacks many inhibition-dependent activity patterns, such as slow-waves, delta oscillations and sleep-spindles, and instead expresses other unique oscillatory activities in multiple species including humans. Thalamus contributes significantly to the generation of these early oscillations. Compared to the abundance of studies on the development of inhibition in cortex, however, the maturation of thalamic inhibition is poorly understood. Here we review developmental changes in the neuronal and circuit properties of the thalamic relay and its interconnected inhibitory thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN) both in vitro and in vivo, and discuss their potential contribution to early network activity and its maturation. While much is unknown, we argue that weak inhibitory function in the developing thalamus allows for amplification of thalamocortical activity that supports the generation of early oscillations. The available evidence suggests that the developmental acquisition of critical thalamic oscillations such as slow-waves and sleep-spindles is driven by maturation of the TRN. Further studies to elucidate thalamic GABAergic circuit formation in relation to thalamocortical network function would help us better understand normal as well as pathological brain development.
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- Yasunobu Murata
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, and Institute for Neuroscience, George Washington University, 2300 Eye Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, and Institute for Neuroscience, George Washington University, 2300 Eye Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
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There is overwhelming evidence that sleep is crucial for memory consolidation. Patients with schizophrenia and their unaffected relatives have a specific deficit in sleep spindles, a defining oscillation of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) Stage 2 sleep that, in coordination with other NREM oscillations, mediate memory consolidation. In schizophrenia, the spindle deficit correlates with impaired sleep-dependent memory consolidation, positive symptoms, and abnormal thalamocortical connectivity. These relations point to dysfunction of the thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN), which generates spindles, gates the relay of sensory information to the cortex, and modulates thalamocortical communication. Genetic studies are beginning to provide clues to possible neurodevelopmental origins of TRN-mediated thalamocortical circuit dysfunction and to identify novel targets for treating the related memory deficits and symptoms. By forging empirical links in causal chains from risk genes to thalamocortical circuit dysfunction, spindle deficits, memory impairment, symptoms, and diagnosis, future research can advance our mechanistic understanding, treatment, and prevention of schizophrenia.
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- Dara S Manoach
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA; .,Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215;
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Merikanto I, Utge S, Lahti J, Kuula L, Makkonen T, Lahti‐Pulkkinen M, Heinonen K, Räikkönen K, Andersson S, Strandberg T, Pesonen A. Genetic risk factors for schizophrenia associate with sleep spindle activity in healthy adolescents. J Sleep Res 2019; 28:e12762. [DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2018] [Revised: 06/11/2018] [Accepted: 07/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- Ilona Merikanto
- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland
- National Institute for Health and Welfare 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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- 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
- National Institute for Health and Welfare 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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- Children’s Hospital, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital Helsinki Finland
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- University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital Helsinki Finland
- University of Oulu, Center for Life Course Health Research Oulu Finland
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland
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Palagini L, Domschke K, Benedetti F, Foster RG, Wulff K, Riemann D. Developmental pathways towards mood disorders in adult life: Is there a role for sleep disturbances? J Affect Disord 2019; 243:121-132. [PMID: 30243192 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2018.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Revised: 08/01/2018] [Accepted: 09/09/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Mood disorders are among the most prevalent and serious mental disorders and rank high among to the leading global burdens of disease. The developmental psychopathology framework can offer a life course perspective on them thus providing a basis for early prevention and intervention. Sleep disturbances, are considered risk factors for mood disorders across childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Assuming that sleep disturbances may play a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of mood disorders from a life course point of view, we reviewed the data on developmental pathways towards mood disorders in adult life in relation to sleep disturbances. METHOD From February 2017, a systematic search was conducted in PubMed, PsycINFO and Embase electronic databases for literature on developmental pathways to mood disorders in adult life in relation to sleep disturbances and to 1) pre-natal stress, 2) early brain developmental processes, and 3) temperaments, character and attachment style. RESULTS Eleven, 54 and 15 articles were respectively selected. CONCLUSIONS Experimental and clinical studies revealed that exposure to prenatal/early life stress results in sleep disturbances such as poor sleep and altered circadian regulation phases and may predict or even precipitate mood disorders in adulthood. Chronic sleep disruption may interfere with neuronal plasticity, connectivity and the developing brain thus contributing to the development of mood disorders. In addition sleep and circadian dysregulations have been shown to be related to those temperaments, character and attachment styles which are considered precursors of mood disorders. Sleep and circadian behaviours may serve as early targets regarding mood disorders.
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- Laura Palagini
- Department of Clinical Experimental Medicine, Psychiatric Unit, University of Pisa, Italy.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany
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- Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele, Via Stamira d'Ancona 20, 20127 Milano, Italy
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- Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, UK
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- Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany
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ADHD symptoms are associated with decreased activity of fast sleep spindles and poorer procedural overnight learning during adolescence. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2019; 157:106-113. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2018.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2018] [Revised: 10/26/2018] [Accepted: 12/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Carmassi C, Palagini L, Caruso D, Masci I, Nobili L, Vita A, Dell'Osso L. Systematic Review of Sleep Disturbances and Circadian Sleep Desynchronization in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Toward an Integrative Model of a Self-Reinforcing Loop. Front Psychiatry 2019; 10:366. [PMID: 31244687 PMCID: PMC6581070 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2019] [Accepted: 05/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Background: A compelling number of studies, conducted in both children and adults, have reported an association between sleep disturbances/circadian sleep alterations and autism spectrum disorder (ASD); however, the data are sparse and the nature of this link is still unclear. The present review aimed to systematically collect the literature data relevant on sleep disturbances and circadian sleep dysrhythmicity related to ASD across all ages and to provide an integrative theoretical framework of their association. Methods: A systematic review of the MEDLINE, PubMed, and Cochrane databases was conducted from November 2018 to February 2019. The search strategies used were MeSH headings and keywords for "sleep-wake circadian rhythms" OR "circadian sleep disorders" OR "sleep-wake pattern" OR "sleep disorders" OR "melatonin" AND "autism spectrum disorder" OR "autism". Results: One hundred and three studies were identified, 15 regarded circadian sleep dysrhythmicity, 74 regarded sleep disturbances, and 17 regarded melatonin alterations in children and adults with ASD. Our findings suggested that autistic subjects frequently present sleep disturbances in particular short sleep duration, low sleep quality/efficiency, and circadian sleep desynchronization such as delayed phases and/or eveningness. Sleep disturbances and circadian sleep alterations have been related to the severity of autistic symptoms. Genetic studies have shown polymorphisms in circadian CLOCK genes and in genes involved in melatonin pathways in subjects with ASD. Conclusions: Sleep disturbances and circadian sleep alterations are frequent in subjects with autistic symptoms. These subjects have shown polymorphisms in clock genes expression and in genes involved in melatonin production. The impairment of circadian sleep regulation may increase the individual's vulnerability to develop symptoms of ASD by altering the sleep regulation in toto, which plays a key role in normal brain development. Even though controversies and "research gaps" are present in literature at this point, we may hypothesize a bidirectional relation between circadian sleep dysfunction and ASD. In particular, circadian sleep dysrhythmicity may predispose to develop ASD symptoms and vice versa within a self-reinforcing feedback loop. By targeting sleep disturbances and circadian sleep dysrhythmicity, we may improve treatment strategies for both children and adults with ASD.
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- Claudia Carmassi
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Psychiatry Division, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Psychiatry Division, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Psychiatry Division, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Psychiatry Division, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Child Neuropsychiatry Unit, IRCCS G. Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy.,Department of Neuroscience-Rehabilitation-Ophthalmology-Genetics-Child and Maternal Health (DINOGMI), University of Genova, Genova, Italy
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- Psychiatry Division, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Psychiatry Division, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Tripathi S, Taneja P, Jha SK. Training on an Appetitive (Delay)-Conditioning Task Enhances Oscillatory Waves During Sleep in the Cortical and Amygdalar Network. Front Behav Neurosci 2018; 12:260. [PMID: 30464744 PMCID: PMC6234907 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Oscillating waves during sleep play an essential role in memory consolidation. The cortical slow wave activity (SWA) and sigma waves during NREM sleep and theta waves during REM sleep increase after a variety of memory tasks including declarative, procedural and associative learning tasks. These oscillatory waves during sleep help to promote neural dialog between circuitries, which possibly plays a causal role in memory consolidation. However, the role of sleep-associated oscillating waves in a complex appetitive-conditioning paradigm is not clear. The parietal cortex and amygdala are involved in the cognitive evaluation of the environmental stimuli, and appetitive conditioning. Here, we have studied the changes in sleep architecture and oscillatory waves during NREM and REM sleep in the parietal cortices and amygdalar-local field potential (A-LFP) after appetitive-conditioning in the rat. We observed that REM sleep increased significantly after appetitive conditioning, which significantly positively correlated with performance on the appetitive-conditioning task. Further, the cortical SWA (0.1-4.5 Hz), and sigma (12-14.25 Hz) waves during NREM sleep, theta (6-9 Hz) waves during REM sleep, the amygdalar SWA (0.1-3.75 Hz) during NREM sleep and theta (6-8.25 Hz) waves during REM sleep significantly increased after appetitive conditioning. Interestingly, the augmented oscillatory waves significantly positively correlated with the performances on the appetitive-conditioning task. Our results suggest that the augmented REM sleep after conditioning may be required for the consolidation of appetitive-conditioned memory. Further, a significant correlation between augmented power in oscillatory waves during sleep and performance suggesting that these waves may be playing a crucial role in the consolidation of appetitive-conditioned memory.
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- Shweta Tripathi
- Department of Biotechnology, School of Engineering and Technology, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India.,School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Engineering and Technology, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India
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- School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Absent sleep EEG spindle activity in GluA1 (Gria1) knockout mice: relevance to neuropsychiatric disorders. Transl Psychiatry 2018; 8:154. [PMID: 30108203 PMCID: PMC6092338 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-018-0199-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2017] [Revised: 06/03/2018] [Accepted: 06/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Sleep EEG spindles have been implicated in attention, sensory processing, synaptic plasticity and memory consolidation. In humans, deficits in sleep spindles have been reported in a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. Genome-wide association studies have suggested a link between schizophrenia and genes associated with synaptic plasticity, including the Gria1 gene which codes for the GluA1 subunit of α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptor. Gria1-/- mice exhibit a phenotype relevant for neuropsychiatric disorders, including reduced synaptic plasticity and, at the behavioural level, attentional deficits leading to aberrant salience. In this study we report a striking reduction of EEG power density including the spindle-frequency range (10-15 Hz) during sleep in Gria1-/- mice. The reduction of spindle-activity in Gria1-/- mice was accompanied by longer REM sleep episodes, increased EEG slow-wave activity in the occipital derivation during baseline sleep, and a reduced rate of decline of EEG slow wave activity (0.5-4 Hz) during NREM sleep after sleep deprivation. These data provide a novel link between glutamatergic dysfunction and sleep abnormalities in a schizophrenia-relevant mouse model.
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Whitehead K, Laudiano-Dray MP, Meek J, Fabrizi L. Emergence of mature cortical activity in wakefulness and sleep in healthy preterm and full-term infants. Sleep 2018; 41:4995737. [PMID: 29762768 PMCID: PMC6093466 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsy096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2017] [Revised: 03/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Study Objectives Cortical activity patterns develop rapidly over the equivalent of the last trimester of gestation, in parallel with the establishment of sleep architecture. However, the emergence of mature cortical activity in wakefulness compared with sleep states in healthy preterm infants is poorly understood. Methods To investigate whether the cortical activity has a different developmental profile in each sleep-wake state, we recorded 11-channels electroencephalography (EEG), electrooculography (EOG), and respiratory movement for 1 hr from 115 infants 34 to 43 weeks-corrected age, with 0.5-17 days of postnatal age. We characterized the trajectory of δ, θ, and α-β oscillations in wakefulness, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and non-REM sleep by calculating the power spectrum of the EEG, averaged across artifact-free epochs. Results δ-Oscillations in wakefulness and REM sleep decrease with corrected age, particularly in the temporal region, but not in non-REM sleep. θ-Oscillations increase with corrected age in sleep, especially non-REM sleep, but not in wakefulness. On the other hand, α-β oscillations decrease predominantly with postnatal age, independently of sleep-wake state, particularly in the occipital region. Conclusions The developmental trajectory of δ and θ rhythms is state-dependent and results in changed cortical activity patterns between states with corrected age, which suggests that these frequency bands may have particular functional roles in each state. Interestingly, postnatal age is associated with a decrease in α-β oscillations overlying primary visual cortex in every sleep-wake state, suggesting that postnatal experience (including the first visual input through open eyes during periods of wakefulness) is associated with resting-state visual cortical activity changes.
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- Kimberley Whitehead
- Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Obstetric Wing, University College London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Colonnese MT, Phillips MA. Thalamocortical function in developing sensory circuits. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2018; 52:72-79. [PMID: 29715588 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2018.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2018] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Thalamocortical activity patterns, both spontaneous and evoked, undergo a dramatic shift in preparation for the onset of rich sensory experience (e.g. birth in humans; eye-opening in rodents). This change is the result of a switch from thalamocortical circuits tuned for transmission of spontaneous bursting in sense organs, to circuits capable of high resolution, active sensory processing. Early 'pre-sensory' tuning uses amplification generated by corticothalamic excitatory feedback and early-born subplate neurons to ensure transmission of bursts, at the expense of stimulus discrimination. The switch to sensory circuits is due, at least in part, to the coordinated remodeling of inhibitory circuits in thalamus and cortex. Appreciation of the distinct rules that govern early circuit function can, and should, inform translational studies of genetic and acquired developmental dysfunction.
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- Matthew T Colonnese
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The George Washington University, United States.
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Institute for Neuroscience, The George Washington University, United States
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Reid CA, Rollo B, Petrou S, Berkovic SF. Can mutation‐mediated effects occurring early in development cause long‐term seizure susceptibility in genetic generalized epilepsies? Epilepsia 2018; 59:915-922. [DOI: 10.1111/epi.14077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Christopher Alan Reid
- The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health The University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria Australia
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- The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health The University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria Australia
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- The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health The University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria Australia
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- Department of Medicine Epilepsy Research Centre Austin Health University of Melbourne Heidelberg Victoria Australia
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Kuula L, Merikanto I, Makkonen T, Halonen R, Lahti-Pulkkinen M, Lahti J, Heinonen K, Räikkönen K, Pesonen AK. Schizotypal traits are associated with sleep spindles and rapid eye movement in adolescence. J Sleep Res 2018; 28:e12692. [PMID: 29655216 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.12692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2017] [Revised: 12/12/2017] [Accepted: 02/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Research suggests an association between schizophrenia and a decrease in sleep spindle activity, as well as a change in sleep architecture. It is unknown how the continuum of psychotic symptoms relates to different features in the sleep electroencephalogram. We set out to examine how sleep architecture and stage 2 spindle activity are associated with schizotypy in a healthy adolescent population. The participants in our study (n = 176, 61% girls) came from a community-based cohort. Schizotypal traits were evaluated using the Schizotypal Personality Scale (STA) in early adolescence (mean age 12.3 years, SD = 0.5) and the participants underwent ambulatory overnight polysomnography at mean age 16.9 years (SD = 0.1). Sleep was scored in 30-s epochs into stages 1, 2, 3 and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Stage 2 spindles were detected using an automated algorithm. Spindle analyses from central and frontal derivations included spindle duration and density for slow (10-13 Hz) and fast (13-16 Hz) ranges. Covariates included sex and age. Those with the highest STA scores had a higher percentage of REM (B = 2.07 [95% CI, 0.17, 4.0]; p = .03) than those with the lowest scores. Those with the highest scores had shorter spindle duration, as derived from the frontal regions, and a slower oscillation range (B = -0.04 [95% CI, -0.07, -0.01]; p = .023) than those with the lowest scores. We conclude that high levels of schizotypy characteristics measured in early adolescence may be associated with distinguished features of sleep architecture, namely with spindle morphology and a higher proportion of REM sleep.
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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 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.,British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, 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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Ahlbeck J, Song L, Chini M, Bitzenhofer SH, Hanganu-Opatz IL. Glutamatergic drive along the septo-temporal axis of hippocampus boosts prelimbic oscillations in the neonatal mouse. eLife 2018; 7:33158. [PMID: 29631696 PMCID: PMC5896876 DOI: 10.7554/elife.33158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2017] [Accepted: 03/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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The long-range coupling within prefrontal-hippocampal networks that account for cognitive performance emerges early in life. The discontinuous hippocampal theta bursts have been proposed to drive the generation of neonatal prefrontal oscillations, yet the cellular substrate of these early interactions is still unresolved. Here, we selectively target optogenetic manipulation of glutamatergic projection neurons in the CA1 area of either dorsal or intermediate/ventral hippocampus at neonatal age to elucidate their contribution to the emergence of prefrontal oscillatory entrainment. We show that despite stronger theta and ripples power in dorsal hippocampus, the prefrontal cortex is mainly coupled with intermediate/ventral hippocampus by phase-locking of neuronal firing via dense direct axonal projections. Theta band-confined activation by light of pyramidal neurons in intermediate/ventral but not dorsal CA1 that were transfected by in utero electroporation with high-efficiency channelrhodopsin boosts prefrontal oscillations. Our data causally elucidate the cellular origin of the long-range coupling in the developing brain. When memories are stored, or mental tasks performed, different parts of the brain need to communicate with each other to process and extract information from the environment. For example, the communication between two brain areas called the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex is essential for memory and attention. However, it is still unclear how these interactions are established when the brain develops. Now, by looking at how the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex ‘work’ together in newborn mouse pups, Ahlbeck et al. hope to understand how these brain areas start to connect. In particular, the groups of neurons that kick start the development of the circuits required for information processing need to be identified. Recording the brains of the pups revealed that electrical activity in a particular sub-division of the hippocampus activated neurons in the prefrontal cortex. In fact, a specific population of neurons in this area was needed for the circuits in the prefrontal cortex to mature. In further experiments, the neurons from this population in the hippocampus were manipulated so they could be artificially activated in the brain using light. When stimulated, these neurons generated electrical activity, which was then relayed through the neurons all the way to the prefrontal cortex. There, this signal triggered local neuronal circuits. Thanks to this activation, these circuits could ‘wire’ together, and start establishing the connections necessary for mental tasks or memory in adulthood. The brain of the mouse pups used by Ahlbeck et al. was approximately in the same developmental state as the brain of human fetuses in the second or third trimester of pregnancy. These findings may therefore inform on how the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex start connecting in humans. Problems in the way brain areas interact during early development could be partly responsible for certain neurodevelopmental disorders and mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia. Understanding these processes at the cellular level may therefore be the first step towards finding potential targets for treatment.
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- Joachim Ahlbeck
- Developmental Neurophysiology, Institute of Neuroanatomy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Developmental Neurophysiology, Institute of Neuroanatomy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Developmental Neurophysiology, Institute of Neuroanatomy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Developmental Neurophysiology, Institute of Neuroanatomy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Developmental Neurophysiology, Institute of Neuroanatomy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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Khazipov R, Milh M. Early patterns of activity in the developing cortex: Focus on the sensorimotor system. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2018; 76:120-129. [DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2017.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2017] [Revised: 09/07/2017] [Accepted: 09/08/2017] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Cortical dendritic activity correlates with spindle-rich oscillations during sleep in rodents. Nat Commun 2017; 8:684. [PMID: 28947770 PMCID: PMC5612962 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00735-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2017] [Accepted: 07/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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How sleep influences brain plasticity is not known. In particular, why certain electroencephalographic (EEG) rhythms are linked to memory consolidation is poorly understood. Calcium activity in dendrites is known to be necessary for structural plasticity changes, but this has never been carefully examined during sleep. Here, we report that calcium activity in populations of neocortical dendrites is increased and synchronised during oscillations in the spindle range in naturally sleeping rodents. Remarkably, the same relationship is not found in cell bodies of the same neurons and throughout the cortical column. Spindles during sleep have been suggested to be important for brain development and plasticity. Our results provide evidence for a physiological link of spindles in the cortex specific to dendrites, the main site of synaptic plasticity. Different stages of sleep, marked by particular electroencephalographic (EEG) signatures, have been linked to memory consolidation, but underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, the authors show that dendritic calcium synchronisation correlates with spindle-rich sleep phases.
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Adverse childhood experiences can deleteriously affect future physical and mental health, increasing risk for many illnesses, including psychiatric problems, sleep disorders, and, according to the present hypothesis, idiopathic nightmares. Much like post-traumatic nightmares, which are triggered by trauma and lead to recurrent emotional dreaming about the trauma, idiopathic nightmares are hypothesized to originate in early adverse experiences that lead in later life to the expression of early memories and emotions in dream content. Accordingly, the objectives of this paper are to (1) review existing literature on sleep, dreaming and nightmares in relation to early adverse experiences, drawing upon both empirical studies of dreaming and nightmares and books and chapters by recognized nightmare experts and (2) propose a new approach to explaining nightmares that is based upon the Stress Acceleration Hypothesis of mental illness. The latter stipulates that susceptibility to mental illness is increased by adversity occurring during a developmentally sensitive window for emotional maturation—the infantile amnesia period—that ends around age 3½. Early adversity accelerates the neural and behavioral maturation of emotional systems governing the expression, learning, and extinction of fear memories and may afford short-term adaptive value. But it also engenders long-term dysfunctional consequences including an increased risk for nightmares. Two mechanisms are proposed: (1) disruption of infantile amnesia allows normally forgotten early childhood memories to influence later emotions, cognitions and behavior, including the common expression of threats in nightmares; (2) alterations of normal emotion regulation processes of both waking and sleep lead to increased fear sensitivity and less effective fear extinction. These changes influence an affect network previously hypothesized to regulate fear extinction during REM sleep, disruption of which leads to nightmares. This network consists of a fear circuit that includes amygdala, hippocampus, and medial prefrontal cortex and whose substantial overlap with the stress acceleration findings allows the latter to be incorporated into a wider, more developmentally coherent framework.
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- Tore Nielsen
- Dream and Nightmare Laboratory, Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, CIUSSS-NÎM - Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.,Department of Psychiatry, Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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