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Power and Coherence in the EEG of the Rat: Impact of Behavioral States, Cortical Area, Lateralization and Light/Dark Phases

Journal

CLOCKS & SLEEP
Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 536-556

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/clockssleep2040039

Keywords

sleep; REM; slow waves; oscillations; gamma; spindles

Funding

  1. Agencia Nacional de Investigacion e Innovacion (ANII) [FCE-1-2011-1-5997]
  2. Programa de Desarrollo de Ciencias Basicas (PEDECIBA), Uruguay
  3. Comision Sectorial de Investigacion Cientifica (CSIC) [I+D-2016-589]

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The sleep-wake cycle is constituted by three behavioral states: wakefulness (W), non-REM (NREM) and REM sleep. These states are associated with drastic changes in cognitive capacities, mostly determined by the function of the thalamo-cortical system, whose activity can be examined by means of intra-cranial electroencephalogram (iEEG). With the purpose to study in depth the basal activity of the iEEG in adult rats, we analyzed the spectral power and coherence of the iEEG during W and sleep in the paleocortex (olfactory bulb), and in neocortical areas. We also analyzed the laterality of the signals, as well as the influence of the light and dark phases. We found that the iEEG power and coherence of the whole spectrum were largely affected by behavioral states and highly dependent on the cortical areas recorded. We also determined that there are night/day differences in power and coherence during sleep, but not in W. Finally, we observed that, during REM sleep, intra-hemispheric coherence differs between right and left hemispheres. We conclude that the iEEG dynamics are highly dependent on the cortical area and behavioral states. Moreover, there are light/dark phases disparities in the iEEG during sleep, and intra-hemispheric connectivity differs between both hemispheres during REM sleep.

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