Anton Sirota, LMU Munich, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Munich (https://cogneuro.bio.lmu.de/)

Please notice the location will be in amphi 7.

Title: Breathing modulates memory consolidation dynamics during offline states in mice

Abstract: Mechanisms underlying the distributed nature of systems memory consolidation are not understood. In this talk, I will present evidence that breathing rhythm modulates populations of neurons across the limbic system and co-modulates cortico-hippocampal dynamics and their interaction during the offline states in mice. Importantly, this phenomenon doesn't rely on the bulbar re-afference and is suggesting the existence of respiratory corollary discharge. Breathing rhythm could be a new player in the mechanistic model of the internal processes in the brain, providing a distributed master clock for coordinating both excitability fluctuations across the brain and contributing to such phenomena as memory consolidation, introspection and meditation.

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