Sleeping Cells in the Human Thalamus
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- case report
- Published by S. Karger AG in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
- Vol. 65 (1-4) , 125-129
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000098683
Abstract
Neurons in the lateral thalamus of a patient undergoing stereotactic surgery were found to fire in a characteristic bursting pattern only when the patient was asleep. These novel observations are consistent with animal studies in which the tonic firing pattern of thalamic neurons during wakefulness changes to a burning pattern during slow-wave sleep.Keywords
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