TY  - JOUR
A1  - Priesemann, Viola
A1  - Valderrama, Mario
A1  - Wibral, Michael
A1  - Le Van Quyen, Michel
T1  - Neuronal avalanches differ from wakefulness to deep sleep - evidence from intracranial depth recordings in humans
T2  - PLoS Computational Biology
N2  - Neuronal activity differs between wakefulness and sleep states. In contrast, an attractor state, called self-organized critical (SOC), was proposed to govern brain dynamics because it allows for optimal information coding. But is the human brain SOC for each vigilance state despite the variations in neuronal dynamics? We characterized neuronal avalanches – spatiotemporal waves of enhanced activity - from dense intracranial depth recordings in humans. We showed that avalanche distributions closely follow a power law – the hallmark feature of SOC - for each vigilance state. However, avalanches clearly differ with vigilance states: slow wave sleep (SWS) shows large avalanches, wakefulness intermediate, and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep small ones. Our SOC model, together with the data, suggested first that the differences are mediated by global but tiny changes in synaptic strength, and second, that the changes with vigilance states reflect small deviations from criticality to the subcritical regime, implying that the human brain does not operate at criticality proper but close to SOC. Independent of criticality, the analysis confirms that SWS shows increased correlations between cortical areas, and reveals that REM sleep shows more fragmented cortical dynamics.
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/29661
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-296611
SN  - 1553-7358
SN  - 1553-734X
N1  - Copyright: © 2013 Priesemann et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 9
IS  - (3): e1002985
SP  - 1
EP  - 14
PB  - Public Library of Science
CY  - San Francisco, Calif.
ER  -