[HTML][HTML] Sleep spindles: mechanisms and functions

LMJ Fernandez, A Lüthi - Physiological reviews, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Sleep spindles are burstlike signals in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of the slee**
mammalian brain and electrical surface correlates of neuronal oscillations in thalamus. As …

[HTML][HTML] About sleep's role in memory

B Rasch, J Born - Physiological reviews, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
Over more than a century of research has established the fact that sleep benefits the
retention of memory. In this review we aim to comprehensively cover the field of “sleep and …

[HTML][HTML] Neuronal voltage-gated calcium channels: structure, function, and dysfunction

BA Simms, GW Zamponi - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
Voltage-gated calcium channels are the primary mediators of depolarization-induced
calcium entry into neurons. There is great diversity of calcium channel subtypes due to …

Control of sleep and wakefulness

RE Brown, R Basheer, JT McKenna… - Physiological …, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
This review summarizes the brain mechanisms controlling sleep and wakefulness.
Wakefulness promoting systems cause low-voltage, fast activity in the …

[HTML][HTML] State-dependent architecture of thalamic reticular subnetworks

MM Halassa, Z Chen, RD Wimmer, PM Brunetti, S Zhao… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Behavioral state is known to influence interactions between thalamus and cortex, which are
important for sensation, action, and cognition. The thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN) is …

Small-Conductance Ca2+-Activated K+ Channels: Form and Function

JP Adelman, J Maylie, P Sah - Annual review of physiology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Small-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channels (SK channels) are widely expressed
throughout the central nervous system. These channels are activated solely by increases in …

Sleep spindles: where they come from, what they do

A Lüthi - The Neuroscientist, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Sleep spindles are extensively studied electroencephalographic rhythms that recur
periodically during non–rapid eye movement sleep and that are associated with rhythmic …

Reduced sleep spindles in schizophrenia: a treatable endophenotype that links risk genes to impaired cognition?

DS Manoach, JQ Pan, SM Purcell, R Stickgold - Biological psychiatry, 2016 - Elsevier
Although schizophrenia (SZ) is defined by waking phenomena, abnormal sleep is a
common feature. In particular, there is accumulating evidence of a sleep spindle deficit …

Generation of ventralized human thalamic organoids with thalamic reticular nucleus

FR Kiral, B Cakir, Y Tanaka, J Kim, WS Yang, F Wehbe… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Human brain organoids provide unique platforms for modeling several aspects of human
brain development and pathology. However, current brain organoid systems mostly lack the …

The slow (< 1 Hz) rhythm of non-REM sleep: a dialogue between three cardinal oscillators

V Crunelli, SW Hughes - Nature neuroscience, 2010 - nature.com
Abstract The slow (< 1 Hz) rhythm, the most important electroencephalogram (EEG)
signature of non–rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, is generally viewed as originating …