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ArticleSleep2013

The spindles: are they still thalamic?

Igor Timofeev, Sylvain Chauvette

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Article in Sleep, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. TREK1 Channels Shape Spindle-Like Oscillations, Neuronal Activity, and Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity in Thalamocortical Circuits.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  5. Sleep Spindle Abnormalities in Preschool Children With Autism Spectrum Disability: Insights From Nap Polysomnography.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025
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  8. Disuse-driven plasticity in the human thalamus and putamen.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  12. Human Spindle Variability.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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  18. Theta Bursts Precede, and Spindles Follow, Cortical and Thalamic Downstates in Human NREM Sleep.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Igor Timofeev
Sylvain Chauvette

Funding

Intrinsic and synaptic mechanisms of epileptogenesis triggered by cortical traumaR01NS059740 · NINDS · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI SEJNOWSKI, TERRENCE J · 2009 to 2012
$1.6M
Cortical mechanisms and functional role of slow sleep oscillationsR01NS060870 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE · PI BAZHENOV, MAKSIM V · 2008 to 2011
$1.3M
CIHRNINDS NIH HHS 1R01-NS059740NINDS NIH HHS 1R01-NS060870NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS059740NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS060870
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

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Identifiers

PMID23729924
PMCPMC3649824

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