Mircea Steriade
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Mircea Steriade (1924-2006), MD, DSc, was a professor of neuroscience at Laval University in Quebec most famous for working out the cortical and thalamic basis of brain rhythms, which had long been observed in EEGs but whose mechanisms were unclear. These rhythms are believed by many people to subserve certain forms of memory consolidation, information gating, and consciousness.
Steriade's work famously revealed the thalamic basis of the sleep spindle (7-14 Hz) and the slow oscillation (0.5 Hz).
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