Topic: Slow Wave Oscillation

During NREM sleep and anesthesia, the cerebral cortex generates low-frequency synchronized activity, known as Slow Wave Oscillation (SWO). In this brain state, cortical neurons alternate between hyperpolarized Down states and depolarized Up states, which will travel from their source through cortico-cortical connections along the whole cortex. This makes the SWO an ideal model to understand cortico-cortical communication and disentangle local properties from those that are controlled by the network state.In this project, we built a computational model of coupled cortical populations under the