Sleep spindles: mechanisms and functions

LMJ Fernandez, A Lüthi - Physiological reviews, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Sleep spindles are burstlike signals in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of the sleeping
mammalian brain and electrical surface correlates of neuronal oscillations in thalamus. As …

Neurophysiological and computational principles of cortical rhythms in cognition

XJ Wang - Physiological reviews, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
Synchronous rhythms represent a core mechanism for sculpting temporal coordination of
neural activity in the brain-wide network. This review focuses on oscillations in the cerebral …

Prefrontal parvalbumin interneurons shape neuronal activity to drive fear expression

J Courtin, F Chaudun, RR Rozeske, N Karalis… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Synchronization of spiking activity in neuronal networks is a fundamental process that
enables the precise transmission of information to drive behavioural responses,,. In cortical …

Distinct behavioural and network correlates of two interneuron types in prefrontal cortex

D Kvitsiani, S Ranade, B Hangya, H Taniguchi… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Neurons in the prefrontal cortex exhibit diverse behavioural correlates,,,, an observation that
has been attributed to cell-type diversity. To link identified neuron types with network and …

Parvalbumin-positive interneurons mediate neocortical-hippocampal interactions that are necessary for memory consolidation

F Xia, BA Richards, MM Tran, SA Josselyn… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Following learning, increased coupling between spindle oscillations in the medial prefrontal
cortex (mPFC) and ripple oscillations in the hippocampus is thought to underlie memory …

High-speed in vivo calcium imaging reveals neuronal network activity with near-millisecond precision

BF Grewe, D Langer, H Kasper, BM Kampa… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Two-photon calcium imaging of neuronal populations enables optical recording of spiking
activity in living animals, but standard laser scanners are too slow to accurately determine …

Oscillations and hippocampal–prefrontal synchrony

LL Colgin - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2011 - Elsevier
The hippocampus, a structure required for many types of memory, connects to the medial
prefrontal cortex, an area that helps direct neuronal information streams during intentional …

Behavior-dependent specialization of identified hippocampal interneurons

D Lapray, B Lasztoczi, M Lagler, TJ Viney… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
A large variety of GABAergic interneurons control information processing in the hippocampal
circuits governing the formation of neuronal representations. Whether distinct hippocampal …

Inhibition recruitment in prefrontal cortex during sleep spindles and gating of hippocampal inputs

A Peyrache, FP Battaglia… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
During light slow-wave sleep, the thalamo-cortical network oscillates in waxing-and-waning
patterns at about 7 to 14 Hz and lasting for 500 ms to 3 s, called spindles, with the thalamus …

Non-redundant odor coding by sister mitral cells revealed by light addressable glomeruli in the mouse

AK Dhawale, A Hagiwara, US Bhalla, VN Murthy… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Sensory inputs frequently converge on the brain in a spatially organized manner, often with
overlapping inputs to multiple target neurons. Whether the responses of target neurons with …