Focus - When We Sleep
How We're Wired
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The Role of the TRN in Sensory Sensitivity
The hypothesis that we're following in our lab is that disturbed sleep may have contributions from a faulty or leaky thalamic reticular nucleus. The TRN also has another important job that might be relevant here. It creates a special type of pattern of brain activity during sleep called sleep spindles. Sarah explained that there are two types of sleep, rapid eye movement or REM sleep and non-rapidEyeMovement Sleep. You can check out our focus episode Why We Forget to hear more about memory formation and failure with Harvard's Daniel Shakta.
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