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. 2002 Sep 1;543(Pt 2):665–677. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.023085

Figure 7. The discharge pattern of a REM-related neuron during different stages of the sleep-waking cycle.

Figure 7

W1, wakefulness with desynchronized frontoparietal EEG,; W2, wakefulness with theta rhythm in the EEG. Note the increased mean firing rate and intraburst frequency during REM sleep. In states with theta rhythm in the EEG (W2 and REM sleep) bursts are phase-locked to the surface-positive component of theta waves.