26th International Summer School of Brain Research

Official Satellite of the 7th Forum of European Neuroscience (FENS)

Slow Brain Oscillations of Sleep, Resting State and Vigilance

Brain activity is characterized by oscillations; in spike frequency, field potentials or blood oxygen level-dependent MRI signals. Environmental stimuli, reaching the brain through our senses, activate, or inactivate, neuronal populations and modulate ongoing activity. In the absence of sensory input, as is the case during rest or sleep, brain activity does not cease. Rather, its oscillations continue and change with respect to their dominant frequencies and coupling topography. Studies ranging from the molecular, physiological and behavioral to the cognitive level have in the past decade clearly indicated that the study of these slow oscillations is essential for our understanding of plasticity, memory, brain structure from synapse to default mode network, cognition, consciousness and ultimately for our understanding of the mechanisms and functions of sleep and vigilance. At this 26th International Summer School an international selection of the most renowned scientists advancing these fields will present and discuss their work. The lectures will cover all levels of biological organization and are targeted at Ph.D-students, postdoctoral fellows and senior researchers, both in basic and clinical science, with an interest in plasticity, memory, sleep, vigilance, oscillations, default mode network activity, cognition and consciousness.

 

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