Sleep and Wakefulness (and Circadian Rhythms)
What is Sleep?
Minimal Behavioral Activity
A rapidly reversible state of quiescence
Increased Arousal Threshold
Species-Specific Posture Tobler and Stadler, 1988
Measurement of Sleep
Two Types of Sleep Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep Four different stages (1 [lightest] – 4 [deepest]) Mixed-frequency EEG low amplitude, high voltage or high amplitude, low voltage Relatively little muscle movements Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep Low-amplitude, high voltage EEG Synchronous eye movements http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ6I9N7t7Vc Paralysis Narcolepsy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvMyuZKGKAY
Brain-Spinal Cord Induction of Paralysis During REM sleep
Time Course of Sleep
Ontogeny of Sleep
Neural Control of Sleep
Neural Control of (NREM) Sleep Bottom-Up Processing
Flip-Flop Circuit Cliff Saper, Bob McCarley, Jerome Siegel
Neural Control of (REM) Sleep PGO waves pons-geniculate-occipital areas OR Brainstem-Thalamus-Occipital Cortex
Neural Control of Spindles
Really Cool Probing of Sleep-Regulatory Areas With Optogenetics
Circadian Rhythms
Basic Criteria of Circadian Rhythms Any physiological or behavioral process that oscillates predictably across 24 hrs This rhythm can be shifted by environmental factors (light, drugs, mating) Persist even with the removal of environmental triggers (light, seasons)
Some Out-of-Phase Physiological Rhythms
Rhythms in Humans Nathaniel Kleitman and Eugene Aserinsky
Neural (SCN) Control of Rhythms SCN: Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
Beyond the SCN: Molecular Control of Rhythms
Real-Time Recording of Molecular Feedback in the SCN
Working in Tandem Interaction between sleep and circadian brain systems characterized as the “two-process model”
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