Sleep Clinical Trial
Official title:
Modulation of Memory Consolidation in Humans
The goal of the present study is to optimize effects of slow oscillatory transcranial direct current stimulation (so-tDCS) on sleep physiology and memory consolidation in humans by combining computational and experimental human models in an iterative process. The investigator therefore works in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Klaus Obermayer (TU Berlin), who contributes computation models with the aim to mechanistically understand the impact of different perturbations on sleep-related electrophysiological features, and to subsequently optimize so-tDCS parameters for inducing SO and spindle activity.
Sleep plays an active role in long-term consolidation of memories. Specifically, slow oscillations (SO, large amplitude waves <1 Hz) and sleep spindles (8-15 Hz), that can be measured by electroencephalography (EEG), appear to be critical for declarative memories. According to the "active system consolidation" account, newly encoded memories are reactivated during sleep, accompanied by sharp-wave ripple events (80-100 Hz) in the hippocampus, and redistributed to cortical long-term storage networks through a coordinated dialog between the hippocampus and neocortex. This dialog is supposedly mediated by a particular coupling between cortical SO and thalamo-cortical fast spindles (12-15 Hz), with spindles preferably occurring during SO up-phases, and hippocampal ripples grouped at the troughs of fast spindles. Slow spindles (8-12 Hz) are a separate kind of sleep spindle activity whose function in memory consolidation is less well understood. Interventions targeting sleep parameters may not only make it possible to beneficially modulate a vital aspect of memory consolidation, i. e., sleep-dependent memory consolidation, but may also help to delineate which specific elements of the neural dynamics during sleep are crucial for successful consolidation. ;
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