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Functional Neuroimaging Insights into the Physiology of Human Sleep.

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Dang-Vu, Thien Thanh, Schabus, Manuel, Desseilles, Martin, Sterpenich, Virginie, Bonjean, Maxime, Maquet, Pierre·2010·SLEEP

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Functional brain imaging has been used in humans to noninvasively investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the generation of sleep stages. On the one hand, REM sleep has been associated with the activation of the pons, thalamus, limbic areas, and temporo-occipital cortices, and the deactivation of prefrontal areas, in line with theories of REM sleep generation and dreaming properties. On the other hand, during non-REM (NREM) sleep, decreases in brain activity have been consistently found in the brainstem, thalamus, and in several cortical areas including the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), in agreement with a homeostatic need for brain energy recovery. Benefiting from a better temporal resolution, more recent studies have characterized the brain activations related to phasic events within specific sleep stages. In particular, they have demonstrated that NREM sleep oscillations (spindles and slow waves) are indeed associated with increases in brain activity in specific subcortical and cortical areas involved in the generation or modulation of these waves. These data highlight that, even during NREM sleep, brain activity is increased, yet regionally specific and transient. Besides refining the understanding of sleep mechanisms, functional brain imaging has also advanced the description of the functional properties of sleep. For instance, it has been shown that the sleeping brain is still able to process external information and even detect the pertinence of its content. The relationship between sleep and memory has also been refined using neuroimaging, demonstrating post-learning reactivation during sleep, as well as the reorganization of memory representation on the systems level, sometimes with long-lasting effects on subsequent memory performance. Further imaging studies should focus on clarifying the role of specific sleep patterns for the processing of external stimuli, as well as the consolidation of freshly encoded information during sleep.

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  • Some brain regions supporting episodic future simulation in wake are conspicuously deactivated during sleep, including dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and regions of the posterior parietal lobes.

    “Prospective cognition during sleep also differs from that during wake in that some brain regions supporting episodic future stimulation in wake are conspicuously deactivated during sleep, including dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and regions of the posterior parietal lobes [64–66].”

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    The REM Sleep passage (indexed as Abstract; page unavailable) reports that activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and inferior parietal cortex decreases during REM sleep compared with wakefulness. It does not identify these regions as supporting episodic future simulation, and its finding is specific to REM sleep rather than sleep generally. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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Authors
Dang-Vu, T. T., Schabus, M., Desseilles, M., Sterpenich, V., Bonjean, M., & Maquet, P.
Affiliations
  • University of Liège (BE)
  • University of Geneva (CH)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Venue
SLEEP
Published
2010-12
Volume
33
Issue
12
Pages
1589-1603
ISSN
  • 0161-8105 (ISSN-L)
  • 1550-9109
OpenAlex
W2101059856
Cited by
284
References
166
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FWCI
1.17
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • SLEEP (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège) (submittedVersion)
  • Repository of the University of Namur (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (R01EB009282)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Keywords
sleep physiology, REM sleep, NREM sleep, sleep stages, dreams, sleep spindles, slow waves, sleep oscillations, brain energy homeostasis, medial prefrontal cortex, sleep and memory, memory consolidation
MeSH terms
Brain, Electroencephalography, Humans, Learning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Memory, Sleep, Wakefulness, Positron-Emission Tomography

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