Photically evoked potentials in the visual cortex following paradoxical sleep deprivation in rats |
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Authors: | Z.J.M. van Hulzen A.M.L. Coenen |
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Affiliation: | Department of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9104 6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Immediately following 72 hr of paradoxical sleep (PS) deprivation, the P3-N3 amplitude of the photically evoked response in the visual cortex was measured in waking rats. PS deprivation was achieved instrumentally by one of three different techniques: the classical platform, the multiple platform, or the pendulum technique. For each of the techniques a control condition was run additionally. The PS deprivation effect consisted of a decrement in the P3-N3 amplitude, which was interpreted as indicating an increase in tonic arousal having a depressing influence on cortical excitability. Concomitantly, a relatively large technique effect occurred, in which the difference between the two platform techniques on the one hand, and the pendulum technique on the other, was most apparent. The same factors did not influence behavioural activity taking place during the presentation of photic stimulation, but did during the preceding 5 min adaptation period. Although the present findings are in contrast with previous reports in animals, they may not be inconsistent with the basic idea of the neural excitability hypothesis of PS. |
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Keywords: | Paradoxical sleep Paradoxical sleep deprivation Visual evoked potentials Neural excitability Arousal processes |
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