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sleep spindles, slow waves and epileptic discharges
Sejnowski, Terrence J. (Terrence Joseph)
During sleep, the mammalian brain generates an orderly progression of low frequency oscillations as the brain moves from sleep onset into deep sleep. This book explores the underlying neural mechanisms involved in generating these oscillations through interacting neural assemblies in the thalamus and the cortex. Sleep spindles are involved in the consolidation of experiences in long-term memory during sleep. Written by two leading experts in the field, this book integrates the properties of ion channels, synaptic interactions, and intrinsic cellular mechanisms into biophysical models of neural oscillations in local circuits and distributed networks. In particular, the book focuses on sleep spindles and how they are highjacked by epileptic seizures.
Alain Destexhe and Terrence J. Sejnowski.
This edition also issued in print: 2023.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]