Auditory circuits: Watchmen of the sleeping brain

Daniel B Polley; Anna R Chambers

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.023

Auditory circuits: Watchmen of the sleeping brain

Curr Biol. 2024 Oct 21;34(20):R924-R926. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.023.

Authors

Daniel B Polley¹, Anna R Chambers²

Affiliations

¹ Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Eaton-Peabody Laboratories, Mass Eye and Ear, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

PMID: 39437729
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.023

Abstract

A new study shows that glutamatergic neurons of the pontine central gray (PCG) play a key role in mediating rapid sound-induced awakenings from sleep by relaying short-latency auditory information to multiple arousal centers in the brain.

MeSH terms

Animals
Arousal / physiology
Auditory Pathways / physiology
Auditory Perception / physiology
Brain / physiology
Humans
Neurons / physiology
Sleep* / physiology
Wakefulness / physiology