Elyana Saad

Consciousness and cortical responsiveness: a within-state study during non-rapid eye movement sleep

Scientific Reports August 5, 2016 Jaakko O. Nieminen, Olivia Gosseries, Marcello Massimini et al. 60 citations

When subjects become unconscious, there is a characteristic change in the way the cerebral cortex responds to perturbations, as can be assessed using transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography (TMS-EEG). For instance, compared to wakefulness, during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep TMS elicits a larger positive-negative wave, fewer phase-locked oscillations, and an overall...