Kiss Z H, Tsoukatos J, Tasker R R, Davis K D, Dostrovsky J O
Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Hospital, Ont., Canada.
Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 1995;65(1-4):125-9. doi: 10.1159/000098683.
Neurons in the lateral thalamus of a patient undergoing stereotactic surgery were found to fire in a characteristic bursting pattern only when the patient was asleep. These novel observations are consistent with animal studies in which the tonic firing pattern of thalamic neurons during wakefulness changes to a bursting pattern during slow-wave sleep.
