Giulio Tononi
Giulio Tononi
Giulio Tononiis a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who holds the David P. White Chair in Sleep Medicine, as well as a Distinguished Chair in Consciousness Science, at the University of Wisconsin...
awake hours rest sleep
They rest for 10 hours a night, and if you keep them awake longer, they need to sleep more.
brain costs kick means sleep
That means that at the end of the day, you have a brain that costs you more energy. That's where sleep would kick in.
activate anywhere area brain record regions responds rest sending travel waves
Essentially, we activate an area. We can do this anywhere in the brain. Once an area is activated, it responds by sending signals, waves that travel through the axons (nerve fibers) to other regions of the brain. At the same time, we can record how the rest of the brain is responding.
area brain needed stimulate talks tool
What we needed to do was stimulate an area of the brain and see if it talks to another part. We have a tool to do that now.