PGO waves
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3 Sep
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pontine‑geniculate‑occipital brain activity during REM sleep
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentGina PoeHuberman Lab · Essentials: Use Sleep to Enhance Learning, Memory & Emotiona... · 27:02 · 3 Sep
…During that sleep spindle stage of sleep, which is N2 stage, there's another excitatory event that comes all the way from the brainstem and projects everywhere in our cortex, which is called PGO waves, which we should generalize to P waves, because they come from the ponds and go to the thalamus and then to the cortex.…
David EaglemanStarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · Your Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman · 19:29 · 21 Aug
…And in fact, this circuitry that causes these are called PGO waves, pontine geniculate occipital.…
David EaglemanInner Cosmos with David Eagleman · Ep150 "Can We Engineer Dreams?" with Adam Haar Horowitz · 52:29 · 20 Apr
…I'm slightly more skeptical about the smell part, only because when we look at what are called PGO waves, which are from pontine to geniculate to occipital cortex, that's why it has this heavy name.…
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