🔥 Breathing coordinates cortico-hippocampal dynamics in mice during offline states.
Nature Communications
https://rdcu.be/c0kLc
"These results highlight breathing, a perennial brain rhythm, as an oscillatory scaffold for the functional coordination of the limbic circuit that supports the segregation and integration of information flow across neuronal networks during offline states."
@nataliepeluso @neuroscience That a rhythm as robust as breathing should help entrain brain activity, and thus play a functional role makes perfect sense. It probably helps that breathing rhythm is fast in mice (4Hz), and that olfaction is so important. I wonder if it still makes sense in human who breathe at a much slower rate (0.3Hz) and olfaction not as important. Thoughts?
