Sleep and Brain Activity

In the last few decades, scientists have discovered that far from being a time of neural silence, sleep is characterized by complex patterns of electrical, neurochemical, and metabolic activity in the brain. Sleep and the Brain presents some of the more dramatic developments in our understanding of brain activity in sleep. The book discusses what parts of the brain are active in sleep and how, and presents research on the function of sleep in memory, learning, and further brain development. Coverage encompasses the network and membrane mechanisms responsible for waking and sleeping brain activity, the roles of glial cells in the sleeping brain, the molecular basis of sleep EEG rhythms, and research on songbirds, rodents, and humans indicating the function of sleep.

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Dr. Frank has been working in the field of sleep biology for over 25 years He received his PhD in neuroscience at Stanford and managed his own sleep laboratories at UPENN and WSU. During this time, his lab made seminal discoveries about the role of glia in sleep. In 2009, they provided the first evidence that glia influence sleep regulation in vivo. That study was published in the prestigious journal Neuron and to date has been cited 852 times. Since then, his lab has published several other important papers on this topic (e.g. Current Biology 2020, Journal of Neuroscience, 2023), and he has presented this work at several conferences and invited talks. He has also published several reviews on this topic and has experience editing scientific books on the topic of sleep.

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Preface

Chapter 1: Igor Timofeev

"Neuronal Oscillations in Thalamocortical System During Sleeping and Waking States:

Chapter 2: Vincenzo Crunelli and Stuart Hughes

"Corticothalamic Rhythms During States of Reduced Vigilance"

Chapter 3: Marcos G. Frank

"Glial Modulation of Sleep and Electroencephalographic Rhythms"

Chapter 4: Paul Franken

"Genetic Mechanisms Underlying Rhythmic EEG Activity During Sleep"

Chapter 5: David Rector

" Evoked Electrophysiological and Vascular Responses Across Sleep"

Chapter 6: Daniel Margoliash and Timothy P. Brawn

"Sleep and Learning in Birds: Rats! There's More to Sleep"

Chapter 7: Subimal Datta

"Phasic Pontine-wave (P-wave)" Generation: Cellular-Molecular-Network Mechanism and Functional Significance"

Chapter 8: Christelle Meyer, Vincenzo Muto, Mathieu Jaspar, Caroline Kussé, Ariane Foret, Laura Mascetti, Pierre Maquet

"Neural Correlates of Human Sleep and Sleep-Dependent Memory Processing"

Chapter 9: Gordon B. Feld and Jan Born

"Sleep EEG Rhythms and System Consolidation of Memory"

Chapter 10: Salomé Kurth and Reto Huber

"Sleep Slow Oscillations and Cortical Maturation"