Sleep spindles: Where they come from, what they do

Neuroscientist

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 243-256

  Lüthi, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

burst; CaV3 channel; cyclic AMP; EEG; inhibition; learning; NREM sleep; rhythm; sensory transmission; voltage gated calcium channel

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMAN; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP SPINDLE; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP STAGE; THALAMUS; ACTION POTENTIAL; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN SLICE; COMPREHENSION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTATION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REM SLEEP; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN WAVES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; LEARNING; SLEEP STAGES; THALAMUS;

CYCLIC AMP; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

EID: 84900867234     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: 10894098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073858413500854     Document Type: Review

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