Department of Neurology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19140, United States.
Neurosci Lett. 2011 Apr 15;493(3):61-2. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.02.031. Epub 2011 Feb 23.
A common property of sleep and epileptic seizures is that both occur because of alteration in network activity within the nervous system. This is represented by an oscillating synchronization of spiking in large groups of neurons from the ever evanescent chaotic yet coherent patterns of activity that underlie sensory and motor operations of the brain. The idea that both slow wave sleep and epileptic seizures may have similar functions in brain homeostasis by purging and consolidating environmental cues is discussed. TMS can be used as a tool to investigate these patterns.
睡眠和癫痫发作的一个共同特征是，两者的发生都是由于神经系统内网络活动的改变。这表现为在大脑的感觉和运动操作的基础上，大量神经元的放电呈现出一种振荡同步，这种同步从瞬息万变但又连贯一致的混沌模式中产生。有人认为，慢波睡眠和癫痫发作可能通过清除和巩固环境线索在大脑的动态平衡中具有相似的功能。TMS 可作为一种研究这些模式的工具。
