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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 22: Posters I

DY 22.12: Poster

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 17:00–19:00, Poster A

Auditory Stimulation to induce sleep slow oscillations — •Hong-Viet Ngo¹, Jan Born^2,3, Jens Christian Claussen¹, and Matthias Mölle^2,3 — ¹Institut für Neuro- und Bioinformatik, Univ. Lübeck — ²Dept. of Neuroendocrinology, Univ. Lübeck — ³Dept. of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, Univ.Tübingen

Slow oscillations, a hallmark of slow wave sleep, are collective cortical oscillations appearing in mammals during slow wave sleep, and have a typical spectral peak frequency around 0.8 Hz in humans. Recent studies have demonstrated a beneficial role of slow wave sleep for the consolidation of memories, which can even be enhanced by electrical stimulation [1]. Here, we use acoustical stimulation to probe to what extent an enhancement of slow oscillations is possible.

[1] L.Marshall, H.Helgadottir, M.Mölle, J.Born, Nature 444, 610 (2006)