title: Acoustic oddball during NREM sleep: a combined EEG/fMRI study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A condition vital for the consolidation and maintenance of sleep is generally reduced responsiveness to external stimuli. Despite this, the sleeper maintains a level of stimulus processing that allows to respond to potentially dangerous environmental signals. The mechanisms that subserve these contradictory functions are only incompletely understood.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Using combined EEG/fMRI we investigated the neural substrate of sleep protection by applying an acoustic oddball paradigm during light NREM sleep. Further, we studied the role of evoked K-complexes (KCs), an electroencephalographic hallmark of NREM sleep with a still unknown role for sleep protection. Our main results were: (1) Other than in wakefulness, rare tones did not induce a blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal increase in the auditory pathway but a strong negative BOLD response in motor areas and the amygdala. (2) Stratification of rare tones by the presence of evoked KCs detected activation of the auditory cortex, hippocampus, superior and middle frontal gyri and posterior cingulate only for rare tones followed by a KC. (3) The typical high frontocentral EEG deflections of KCs were not paralleled by a BOLD equivalent.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We observed that rare tones lead to transient disengagement of motor and amygdala responses during light NREM sleep. We interpret this as a sleep protective mechanism to delimit motor responses and to reduce the sensitivity of the amygdala towards further incoming stimuli. Evoked KCs are suggested to originate from a brain state with relatively increased stimulus processing, revealing an activity pattern resembling novelty processing as previously reported during wakefulness. The KC itself is not reflected by increased metabolic demand in BOLD based imaging, arguing that evoked KCs result from increased neural synchronicity without altered metabolic demand.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany. czisch@mpipsykl.mpg.de
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Czisch
authors.forename: Renate
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wehrle
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stiegler
authors.forename: Henning
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Peters
authors.forename: Katia
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Andrade
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Holsboer
authors.forename: Philipp G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Sämann
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*
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