Development of the Brain's Default Mode Network from Wakefulness to Slow Wave Sleep
Cerebral Cortex February 17, 2011 Philipp G. Sämann, Renate Wehrle, David Hoehn et al. 408 citations
Falling asleep is paralleled by a loss of conscious awareness and reduced capacity to process external stimuli. Little is known on sleep-associated changes of spontaneously synchronized anatomical networks as detected by resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). We employed functional connectivity analysis of rs-fMRI series obtained from 25 healthy participants, covering...