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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2024

Cardiovascular and vasomotor pulsations in the brain and periphery during awake and NREM sleep in a multimodal fMRI study.

Johanna Tuunanen, Heta Helakari, Niko Huotari, Tommi Väyrynen, Matti Järvelä, Janne Kananen, Annastiina Kivipää, Lauri Raitamaa, Seyed-Mohsen Ebrahimi, Mika Kallio and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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  2. Infra-slow (<0.1 Hz) Modulation of Human Brain Pulsations in Awake and Sleep States.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  3. Sleep Alters the Velocity of Physiological Brain Pulsations in Humans.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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Johanna TuunanenDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu Functional NeuroImaging (OFNI), Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
Heta HelakariDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu Functional NeuroImaging (OFNI), Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
Niko HuotariDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu Functional NeuroImaging (OFNI), Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
Tommi VäyrynenDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu Functional NeuroImaging (OFNI), Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
Matti JärveläDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu Functional NeuroImaging (OFNI), Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
Janne KananenDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu Functional NeuroImaging (OFNI), Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
Annastiina KivipääDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu Functional NeuroImaging (OFNI), Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
Lauri RaitamaaDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu Functional NeuroImaging (OFNI), Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
Seyed-Mohsen EbrahimiDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu Functional NeuroImaging (OFNI), Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
Mika KallioMedical Research Center (MRC), Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
Johanna PiispalaMedical Research Center (MRC), Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
Vesa KiviniemiDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu Functional NeuroImaging (OFNI), Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
Vesa KorhonenDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu Functional NeuroImaging (OFNI), Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.

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Abstract

Introduction: The cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in the human brain are driven by physiological pulsations, including cardiovascular pulses and very low-frequency (< 0.1 Hz) vasomotor waves. Ultrafast functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) facilitates the simultaneous measurement of these signals from venous and arterial compartments independently with both classical venous blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) and faster arterial spin-phase contrast. Methods: In this study, we compared the interaction of these two pulsations in awake and sleep using fMRI and peripheral fingertip photoplethysmography in both arterial and venous signals in 10 healthy subjects (5 female). Results: Sleep increased the power of brain cardiovascular pulsations, decreased peripheral pulsation, and desynchronized them. However, vasomotor waves increase power and synchronicity in both brain and peripheral signals during sleep. Peculiarly, lag between brain and peripheral vasomotor signals reversed in sleep within the default mode network. Finally, sleep synchronized cerebral arterial vasomotor waves with venous BOLD waves within distinct parasagittal brain tissue. Discussion: These changes in power and pulsation synchrony may reflect systemic sleep-related changes in vascular control between the periphery and brain vasculature, while the increased synchrony of arterial and venous compartments may reflect increased convection of regional neurofluids in parasagittal areas in sleep.

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cardiovascular pulsationsheart rate variabilitymultimodal imagingsleepultrafast fMRIvasomotor pulsations

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