During even the most quiescent behavioral periods, the cortex and thalamus express rich
spontaneous activity in the form of slow (< 1 Hz), synchronous network state transitions …

During inattentive wakefulness and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, the neocortex
and thalamus cooperatively engage in rhythmic activities that are exquisitely reflected in the …

Slow waves represent one of the prominent EEG signatures of non-rapid eye movement
(non-REM) sleep and are thought to play an important role in the cellular and network …

Every night, the human brain produces thousands of downstates and spindles during non-
REM sleep. Previous studies indicate that spindles originate thalamically and downstates …

Sleep spindles are rhythmic patterns of neuronal activity generated within the
thalamocortical circuit. Although spindles have been hypothesized to protect sleep by …

In this study, we developed and validated a single-shank silicon-based neural probe with
128 closely-packed microelectrodes suitable for high-resolution extracellular recordings …

Mammalian sleep emerges from attenuated activity in the ascending reticular arousal
system (ARAS), the main arousal network of the brain. This system originates in the …

Transcranial Current Stimulations (tCSs) are non-invasive brain stimulation techniques
which modulate cortical excitability and spontaneous brain activity by the application of …

Surprisingly, the concept of sleep, its necessity and function, the mechanisms of action, and
its elicitors are far from being completely understood. A key to sleep function is to determine …

Anesthesia affects brain activity at the molecular, neuronal and network level, but it is not
well-understood how tuning properties of sensory neurons and network connectivity change …