A role for spindles in the onset of rapid eye movement sleep

During NREM sleep, spindles emerge from thalamocortical interactions. Here the authors carry out multisite thalamic and cortical recordings in freely behaving mice, to investigate the role of other non-classical thalamic sites in sleep spindle generation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mojtaba Bandarabadi, Carolina Gutierrez Herrera, Thomas C. Gent, Claudio Bassetti, Kaspar Schindler, Antoine R. Adamantidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19076-2