Sleep spindles are generated by thalamic reticular nuclei and transmitted into the thalamo-cortical network during nonREM sleep. They are commonly thought to have a sleep-protecting role by inhibiting sensory inputs. The aim of our work was to test their inhibitory effect on behavioural and evoked responses to nociceptive inputs in humans by conducing three electrophysiological experiments during a whole night of sleep. The first two experiments used thermo-nociceptive laser stimuli delivered during or apart from sleep spindles. Cerebral responses were obtained with surface recordings in healthy subjects, or intracerebral ones in epileptic patients. Results showed no significant difference in arousal reactions and cortical evoked responses ...
Sleep spindles are burstlike signals in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of the sleeping mammalian bra...
In humans, some evidence suggests that there are two different types of spindles during sleep, which...
There exists a large body of evidence pointing to an essential role of sleep in memory consolidation...
Les fuseaux de sommeil sont générés par le noyau réticulaire thalamique puis transmis dans la boucle...
Learning new motor skills is based on their practice but also on memory consolidation mechanisms. Th...
During the sleep-wake cycle, our brain must maintain a balance between excitation and inhibition in ...
SummarySleep spindles are major transient oscillations of the mammalian brain. Spindles are generate...
Trois états de vigilance, caractérisés par une activité cérébrale spécifique, sont habituellement dé...
Sleep spindle generation classically relies on an interplay between the thalamic reticular nucleus (...
Sleep spindles are a distinctive EEG phasic feature of NREM sleep and are prevalent during stage 2 a...
Sleep spindles are thalamocortical oscillations associated with several behavioural and clinical phe...
Transient episodes of brain oscillations are a common feature of both the waking and sleeping brain....
Activation of the spinothalamic system does not always result in a subjective pain perception. While...
Sleep spindle generation classically relies on an interplay between the thalamic reticular nucleus (...
We studied behavioural responses and 32-channel brain potentials to nociceptive stimuli during all-n...
Sleep spindles are burstlike signals in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of the sleeping mammalian bra...
In humans, some evidence suggests that there are two different types of spindles during sleep, which...
There exists a large body of evidence pointing to an essential role of sleep in memory consolidation...
Les fuseaux de sommeil sont générés par le noyau réticulaire thalamique puis transmis dans la boucle...
Learning new motor skills is based on their practice but also on memory consolidation mechanisms. Th...
During the sleep-wake cycle, our brain must maintain a balance between excitation and inhibition in ...
SummarySleep spindles are major transient oscillations of the mammalian brain. Spindles are generate...
Trois états de vigilance, caractérisés par une activité cérébrale spécifique, sont habituellement dé...
Sleep spindle generation classically relies on an interplay between the thalamic reticular nucleus (...
Sleep spindles are a distinctive EEG phasic feature of NREM sleep and are prevalent during stage 2 a...
Sleep spindles are thalamocortical oscillations associated with several behavioural and clinical phe...
Transient episodes of brain oscillations are a common feature of both the waking and sleeping brain....
Activation of the spinothalamic system does not always result in a subjective pain perception. While...
Sleep spindle generation classically relies on an interplay between the thalamic reticular nucleus (...
We studied behavioural responses and 32-channel brain potentials to nociceptive stimuli during all-n...
Sleep spindles are burstlike signals in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of the sleeping mammalian bra...
In humans, some evidence suggests that there are two different types of spindles during sleep, which...
There exists a large body of evidence pointing to an essential role of sleep in memory consolidation...