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Rotating waves during human sleep spindles organize global patterns of activity that repeat precisely through the night

Overview of attention for article published in eLife, November 2016
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56 X users
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Title
Rotating waves during human sleep spindles organize global patterns of activity that repeat precisely through the night
Published in
eLife, November 2016
DOI 10.7554/elife.17267
Pubmed ID
Authors

Lyle Muller, Giovanni Piantoni, Dominik Koller, Sydney S Cash, Eric Halgren, Terrence J Sejnowski

Abstract

During sleep, the thalamus generates a characteristic pattern of transient, 11-15 Hz sleep spindle oscillations, which synchronize the cortex through large-scale thalamocortical loops. Spindles have been increasingly demonstrated to be critical for sleep-dependent consolidation of memory, but the specific neural mechanism for this process remains unclear. We show here that cortical spindles are spatiotemporally organized into circular wave-like patterns, organizing neuronal activity over tens of milliseconds, within the timescale for storing memories in large-scale networks across the cortex via spike-time dependent plasticity. These circular patterns repeat over hours of sleep with millisecond temporal precision, allowing reinforcement of the activity patterns through hundreds of reverberations. These results provide a novel mechanistic account for how global sleep oscillations and synaptic plasticity could strengthen networks distributed across the cortex to store coherent and integrated memories.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Greece 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Unknown 198 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 59 29%
Researcher 42 20%
Student > Bachelor 19 9%
Student > Master 17 8%
Professor 13 6%
Other 27 13%
Unknown 30 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 71 34%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 23 11%
Psychology 23 11%
Engineering 14 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 12 6%
Other 22 11%
Unknown 42 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 177. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 July 2023.
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#226,222
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Outputs from eLife
#524
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Outputs of similar age
#4,269
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Outputs of similar age from eLife
#16
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