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Rhythmic and arrhythmic components from local-field potentials during non-rapid eye movement sleep in younger and older mice

Dubé, Jonathan, Corbin, Justin, Hernandez, Jimmy, Lina, Jean Marc, Mongrain, Valérie, Timofeev, Igor et Carrier, Julie. 2026. « Rhythmic and arrhythmic components from local-field potentials during non-rapid eye movement sleep in younger and older mice ». SLEEP Advances, vol. 7, nº 1.

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The non-rapid-eye movement (NREM) sleep power spectrum is composed of rhythmic and arrhythmic components, respectively associated with brain rhythms and scale-free dynamics. Both components are hypothesized to represent distinct processes underlying sleep-dependent memory consolidation as well as other brain complex processes. Recent advancements in spectral parametrization techniques and the use of multifractal models have enabled new insights into these components and their connection to brain networks. Aging impacts NREM sleep oscillations, but no animal studies considered the impact of age on rhythmic and arrhythmic components. In this study, we assessed the effects of age on the power spectrum and its two components using local field potential recordings in mice. We recorded across the cerebral cortex and within the hippocampus—a central brain hub involved in NREM sleep-dependent cognitive processing. Ten younger (7.6 months) and eleven older (15.7 months) C57BL/6 J male and female mice were continuously recorded over a 24-hour period. We extracted the NREM sleep standard and rhythmic spectra, controlled for scale-free activity, and estimated multifractal arrhythmic properties during NREM sleep using the Wavelet Leader and Bootstrap based MultiFractal analysis toolbox. Older mice showed specific alterations in both components compared to younger animals: reduced rhythmic gamma power in the anterior cortex, greater regional differentiation of scaling exponents, and higher multifractal dispersion of the arrhythmic component in the hippocampus. These findings demonstrate that aging alters rhythmic and arrhythmic properties of NREM sleep in distinct brain regions, suggesting that both contribute to age-related changes in sleep-dependent cognition.

Type de document: Article publié dans une revue, révisé par les pairs
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Lina, Jean-Marc
Affiliation: Génie électrique
Date de dépôt: 19 févr. 2026 16:57
Dernière modification: 01 avr. 2026 15:34
URI: https://espace2.etsmtl.ca/id/eprint/33376

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