Bibliographic record
Abstract
Several neuronal systems contribute to the generation and maintenance of sleep and waking. Knowledge pertaining to the neurotransmitters involved in sleep-wake regulation has been derived primarily from species that display bilaterally symmetric EEG states (e.g. cats, dogs, rats, and mice). However, these studies do not indicate which aspects of sleep these neurotransmitters are specifically linked to. Fur seals display both bilateral (BSWS) and asymmetrical sleep slow-wave sleep (ASWS); this unusual sleeping pattern provides a unique opportunity to determine which of the many physiological and neurochemical changes seen bilaterally in terrestrial mammals are linked to the cortical EEG changes and which may be linked to the motor and/or autonomic aspects of sleep. In studying this remarkable feature of the fur seal, we can dissociate the thalamocortical EEG activity in each hemisphere from aspects of behavioural state and study each independently as they relate to neurotransmitter release. The overall aim of my thesis was to examine, simultaneously in both hemispheres, the release of key neurotransmitters in the cortex across the sleep-wake cycle in the northern fur seal, and to specifically compare levels during BSWS and ASWS. In vivo microdialysis and high-performance liquid chromatography were used to monitor the release of neurotransmitters during polygraphically defined states. Neurotransmitters previously thought to contribute equally to the waking state, actually behave quite differently in a brain that is half awake and half asleep. Cortical acetylcholine (ACh) release was highly lateralized during ASWS, with greater release in the activated hemisphere, whereas cortical serotonin (5-HT), noradrenaline (NA), and histamine (HA) were symmetrically released during ASWS. Of the arousal systems studied so far, only ACh is involved in the lateralized cortical EEG activation manifested in asymmetric sleep. Bilaterally symmetric levels of the monoaminergic transmitters studied to date are compatible with interhemispheric EEG asymmetry. Findings suggest distinct functional roles for ACh, 5-HT, NA, and HA in the regulation of wakefulness, with respect to cortical activation and behavioural arousal.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".