Abstract: THE MOST PROMINENT ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC (EEG) CHARACTERISTIC OF DEEP NON-RAPID EYE MOVEMENT (NREM) SLEEP IS SLOW WAVES. THE neuronal correlate of slow waves is the slow oscillation first described in detail by Steriade and coworkers, who showed that membrane potentials of cortical neurons alternate about every second between a depolarized upstate and a hyperpolarized downstate during slow oscillations.1 When these oscillations are near synchronous and involve the majority of the cortical neurons in a given region, they become visible in the ...
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