Why does sleep slow-wave activity increase after extended wake? Assessing the effects of increased cortical firing during wake and sleep
During non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, cortical neurons alternate between ON periods of firing and OFF periods of silence. This bi-stability, which is largely synchronous across neurons, is reflected in the EEG as slow waves. Slow-wave activity (SWA) increases with wake duration and declines ho...
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Society for Neuroscience
2016
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