Sleep and sleep States: Thalamic regulation.
Alain Destexhe and Terrence J Sejnowski
In: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Edited by Squire LR,
Academic Press, Oxford. Vol. 8, pp. 973-976 (2009).
Abstract
During slow-wave sleep, brain activity is dominated by different
types of oscillations, such as sleep spindles, delta oscillations and
slower oscillations. The thalamus, together with the cortex,
participates in generating and sustaining these oscillations. This
article reviews the role of the thalamus in generating and
controlling the sleep spindles, one of the key oscillations of
slow-wave sleep.
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