Respiration-Entrained Brain Rhythms Are Global but Often Overlooked
Respiration-Entrained Brain Rhythms Are Global but Often Overlooked
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DOI:
10.1016/j.tins.2018.01.007
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发表时间:
2018-04
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
A. Tort;J. Brankačk;A. Draguhn
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作者:
A. Tort;J. Brankačk;A. Draguhn
We revisit recent evidence showing that nasal respiration entrains oscillations at the same frequency as breathing in several regions of the rodent brain. Moreover, respiration modulates the amplitude of a specific gamma sub-band (70–120Hz), most prominently in frontal regions. Since rodents often breathe at delta and theta frequencies, we caution that previous studies on delta and theta power and their cross-regional synchrony, as well as on delta–gamma and theta–gamma coupling, may have detected the respiration-entrained rhythm and respiration–gamma coupling. We argue that the simultaneous tracking of respiration along with electrophysiological recordings is necessary to properly identify brain oscillations. We hypothesize that respiration-entrained oscillations aid long-range communication in the brain.