Discovery of key whole-brain transitions and dynamics during human wakefulness and non-REM sleep

The modern understanding of sleep is based on the classification of sleep into stages defined by their electroencephalography (EEG) signatures, but the underlying brain dynamics remain unclear. Here we aimed to move significantly beyond the current state-of-the-art description of sleep, and in parti...

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Autores: Stevner, Angus B. A., Vidaurre, Diego, Cabral, Joana, Rapuano, Kristina M., Nielsen, Søren Føns Vind, Tagliazucchi, Enzo, Laufs, Helmut, Vuust, Peter, Deco, Gustavo, Woolrich, Mark W., van Someren, Eus, Kringelbach, Morten L.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/43644
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/43644
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08934-3
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Electroencephalography - EEG
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Non-REM sleep
Sleep
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Sumario:The modern understanding of sleep is based on the classification of sleep into stages defined by their electroencephalography (EEG) signatures, but the underlying brain dynamics remain unclear. Here we aimed to move significantly beyond the current state-of-the-art description of sleep, and in particular to characterise the spatiotemporal complexity of whole-brain networks and state transitions during sleep. In order to obtain the most unbiased estimate of how whole-brain network states evolve through the human sleep cycle, we used a Markovian data-driven analysis of continuous neuroimaging data from 57 healthy participants falling asleep during simultaneous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and EEG. This Hidden Markov Model (HMM) facilitated discovery of the dynamic choreography between different whole-brain networks across the wake-non-REM sleep cycle. Notably, our results reveal key trajectories to switch within and between EEG-based sleep stages, while highlighting the heterogeneities of stage N1 sleep and wakefulness before and after sleep.