Excitatory-inhibitory processes in parietal association neurons during reticular activation and sleep-waking cycle

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Excitatory-inhibitory processes of parietal association neurons were studied during reticular-induced EEG activation and natural sleep-waking cycle. The probability of antidromic invasion in long-axon cells is enhanced following midbrain reticular stimulation and during both waking (W) and desynchronized sleep (D) states compared to slow-wave sleep. The thalamically elicited inhibitory phase occurs with a shorter latency following reticular stimulation and during W and D states; this is due to the reduced duration, during all these experimental conditions, of secondary excitatory processes. The duration of the inhibitory period is shorter during reticular activation; the postinhibitory rebound occurs at shorter latencies and is sharper following reticular stimulation and during W and D states. The similarity between reticular effects and changes during both W and D states is discussed.

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Steriade, M., Kitsikis, A., & Oakson, G. (1979). Excitatory-inhibitory processes in parietal association neurons during reticular activation and sleep-waking cycle. Sleep, 1(4), 339–355. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/1.4.339

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