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The Journal of Neuroscience, November 26, 2003, 23(34):10897-10903
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Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive
Sleep-Dependent  Oscillations in the Human Hippocampus and Neocortex
Jose L. Cantero,1
Mercedes Atienza,1
Robert Stickgold,1
Michael J. Kahana,2
Joseph R. Madsen,3 and
Bernat Kocsis1
1Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, 2Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, and 3Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital, and Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Hippocampal  waves recorded during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep are thought to play a critical role in memory consolidation in lower mammals, but previous attempts to detect similar oscillations in the human hippocampus have been unsuccessful. Using subdural and depth recordings from epileptic patients, we now report the first evidence of state-dependent hippocampal waves (4-7 Hz) in humans. Unlike the continuous in rodents, however, these oscillations were consistently observed during REM sleep in short ( 1 sec) bursts and during transitions to wake in longer epochs. waves were also observed in the basal temporal lobe and frontal cortex during transitions from sleep to wake and in quiet wakefulness but not in REM, and they were not coherent with hippocampal oscillations. The absence of functional coupling between neocortex and hippocampus during periods indicates that multiple generators exist in the human brain, and that they are dynamically regulated by brain state.  oscillations were also present during REM bursts, but the fluctuations in power were not associated with phase, pointing out another significant difference between rodent and human properties. Together, these findings suggest that the generation mechanisms of oscillations in humans might have evolved from tonic to phasic in hippocampus during REM sleep and extended from hippocampus to cortex, where they appear in certain wakefulness-related states.
Key words: oscillations; hippocampus; cerebral cortex; sleep; intracranial recordings; humans
Received July 30, 2003;
revised September 15, 2003;
accepted September 16, 2003.
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