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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 85 No. 5 May 2001, pp. 1969-1985
Copyright ©2001 by the American Physiological Society

Natural Waking and Sleep States: A View From Inside Neocortical Neurons

M. Steriade, I. Timofeev, and F. Grenier

Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie, Faculté de Médicine, Université Laval, Quebec G1K 7P4, Canada

Steriade, M., I. Timofeev, and F. Grenier. Natural Waking and Sleep States: A View From Inside Neocortical Neurons. J. Neurophysiol. 85: 1969-1985, 2001. In this first intracellular study of neocortical activities during waking and sleep states, we hypothesized that synaptic activities during natural states of vigilance have a decisive impact on the observed electrophysiological properties of neurons that were previously studied under anesthesia or in brain slices. We investigated the incidence of different firing patterns in neocortical neurons of awake cats, the relation between membrane potential fluctuations and firing rates, and the input resistance during all states of vigilance. In awake animals, the neurons displaying fast-spiking firing patterns were more numerous, whereas the incidence of neurons with intrinsically bursting patterns was much lower than in our previous experiments conducted on the intact-cortex or isolated cortical slabs of anesthetized cats. Although cortical neurons displayed prolonged hyperpolarizing phases during slow-wave sleep, the firing rates during the depolarizing phases of the slow sleep oscillation was as high during these epochs as during waking and rapid-eye-movement sleep. Maximum firing rates, exceeding those of regular-spiking neurons, were reached by conventional fast-spiking neurons during both waking and sleep states, and by fast-rhythmic-bursting neurons during waking. The input resistance was more stable and it increased during quiet wakefulness, compared with sleep states. As waking is associated with high synaptic activity, we explain this result by a higher release of activating neuromodulators, which produce an increase in the input resistance of cortical neurons. In view of the high firing rates in the functionally disconnected state of slow-wave sleep, we suggest that neocortical neurons are engaged in processing internally generated signals.




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