At nighttime between the two days, scientists introduced artificial
thalamic spindles in some of the mice using a light - based technique called optogenetics.
This is the first study to show that artificial
thalamic spindles affect memory, if administered in sync with slow oscillations.
«Often during the night a regular pattern is manifested, where a slow oscillation from the cortex is immediately followed by
a thalamic spindle and while this happens, a hippocampal ripple appears in parallel.
Not exact matches
Spindles come from a structure of the brain called
thalamic reticular nucleus and spike around 7 - 15 per second.