DFIS - Departamento de Fisiologia e Comportamento

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Chronotype ontogeny related to gender
(2014) Duarte, L.L; Menna-Barreto, L.; Miguel, M.A.L; Louzada, F.; Araújo, John Fontenele; Alam, M.; Areas, R.; Pedrazzoli, M.
Chronotype is an established concept designed to identify distinct phase relationships between the expression of circadian rhythms and external synchronizers in humans. Although it has been widely accepted that chronotype is subjected to ontogenetic modulation, there is no consensus on the interaction between age and gender. This study aimed to determine the relationship between age- and gender-related changes in the morningness-eveningness character in a large sample of people. A total of 14,650 volunteers were asked to complete the Brazilian version of the Horne and Östberg chronotype questionnaire. The data demonstrated that, on average, women were more morning-oriented than men until the age of 30 and there were no significant differences between men and women from 30 to 45 years of age. In contrast to the situation observed until the age of 30, women older than 45 years were more evening-oriented than men. These results suggest that the ontogenetic development of the circadian timekeeping system is more plastic in men, as represented by the larger amplitude of chronotype changes throughout their aging process. The phase delay of adolescence and phase advance of the elderly seem to be phenomena that are more markedly present in men than in women. Thus, our data, for the first time, provide support that sharply opposes the view that there is a single path toward morningness as a function of age, regardless of gender.
Disruption of neocortical synchronisation during slow-wave sleep in the rotenone model of Parkinson’s disease
(Wiley, 2020-07-28) Lima, Gustavo Zampier dos Santos; Targa, Adriano D. S.; Cavalcante, Samantha de Freitas; Rodrigues, Lais S.; Araújo, John Fontenele; Torterolo, Pablo; Andersen, Monica L.; Lima, Marcelo M. S.
Parkinson’s disease motor dysfunctions are associated with improperly organised neural oscillatory activity. The presence of such disruption at the early stages of the disease in which altered sleep is one of the main features could be a relevant predictive feature. Based on this, we aimed to investigate the neocortical synchronisation dynamics during slow-wave sleep (SWS) in the rotenone model of Parkinson’s disease. After rotenone administration within the substantia nigra pars compacta, one group of male Wistar rats underwent sleep–wake recording. Considering the association between SWS oscillatory activity and memory consolidation, another group of rats underwent a memory test. The fine temporal structure of synchronisation dynamics was evaluated by a recently developed technique called first return map. We observed that rotenone administration decreased the time spent in SWS and altered the power spectrum within different frequency bands, whilst it increased the transition rate from a synchronised to desynchronised state. This neurotoxin also increased the probability of longer and decreased the probability of shorter desynchronisation events. At the same time, we observed impairment in object recognition memory. These findings depict an electrophysiological fingerprint represented by a disruption in the typical oscillatory activity within the neocortex at the early stages of Parkinson’s disease, concomitant with a decrease in the time spent in SWS and impairment in recognition memory
Efeitos agudos do exercício físico no tratamento da dependência química
(2017-04) Ferreira, Sionaldo Eduardo; Santos, Anny Kalinne de Melo dos; Okano, Alexandre Hideki; Gonçalves, Bruno da Silva Brandão; Araújo, John Fontenele
Foram avaliados os efeitos do exercício físico na capacidade de atenção, na memória, no desejo de usar drogas, na percepção de esforço e prazer e no estado de humor de 16 indivíduos em tratamento para dependência de drogas. Foram usados a escala de Brunel, o teste de cancelamento de números, o teste dos blocos de Corsi, a escala de Borg e escala de valência afetiva ao esforço físico nas situações controle, pré e pós‐realização de uma sessão de exercícios físicos (60 min). Foi observada redução no desejo de usar drogas e no tempo de execução do teste de cancelamento de números, e aumento no número de blocos recordados. Os resultados apontam a importância do profissional da educação física nas equipes para tratamento da dependência química.
Hippocampal and cortical communication around micro-arousals in slow-wave sleep
(Nature Publishing Group, 2019-04-10) Lima, Gustavo Zampier dos Santos; Lobão-Soares, Bruno; Corso, Gilberto; Belchior, Hindiael Aeraf; Lopes, Sergio Roberto Lopes; Prado, Thiago de Lima; Nascimento, George Carlos do; Araújo, John Fontenele; Ivanov, Plamen Ch.
Sleep plays a crucial role in the regulation of body homeostasis and rhythmicity in mammals. Recently, a specific component of the sleep structure has been proposed as part of its homeostatic mechanism, named micro-arousal. Here, we studied the unique progression of the dynamic behavior of cortical and hippocampal local field potentials (LFPs) during slow-wave sleep-related to motor-bursts (micro-arousals) in mice. Our main results comprised: (i) an abrupt drop in hippocampal LFP amplitude preceding micro-arousals which persisted until the end of motor-bursts (we defined as t interval, around 4s) and a similar, but delayed amplitude reduction in cortical (S1/M1) LFP activity occurring at micro-arousal onset; (ii) two abrupt frequency jumps in hippocampal LFP activity: from Theta (6–12 Hz) to Delta (2–4 Hz), also t seconds before the micro-arousal onset, and followed by another frequency jump from Delta to Theta range (5–7 Hz), now occurring at micro-arousal onset; (iii) a pattern of cortico-hippocampal frequency communication precedes micro-arousals: the analysis between hippocampal and cortical LFP fluctuations reveal high coherence during τ interval in a broader frequency band (2–12 Hz), while at a lower frequency band (0.5–2 Hz) the coherence reaches its maximum after the onset of micro-arousals. In conclusion, these novel findings indicate that oscillatory dynamics pattern of cortical and hippocampal LFPs preceding micro-arousals could be part of the regulatory processes in sleep architecture
Optimizing the detection of nonstationary signals by using recurrence analysis
(American Institute of Physics, 2018-08-24) Prado, Thiago de Lima; Lima, Gustavo Zampier dos Santos; Lobão-Soares, Bruno; Nascimento, George Carlos do; Corso, Gilberto; Araújo, John Fontenele; Kurths, Jürgen; Lopes, Sérgio Roberto
Recurrence analysis and its quantifiers are strongly dependent on the evaluation of the vicinity threshold parameter, i.e., the threshold to regard two points close enough in phase space to be considered as just one. We develop a new way to optimize the evaluation of the vicinity threshold in order to assure a higher level of sensitivity to recurrence quantifiers to allow the detection of even small changes in the dynamics. It is used to promote recurrence analysis as a tool to detect nonstationary behavior of time signals or space profiles. We show that the ability to detect small changes provides information about the present status of the physical process responsible to generate the signal and offers mechanisms to predict future states. Here, a higher sensitive recurrence analysis is proposed as a precursor, a tool to predict near future states of a particular system, based on just (experimentally) obtained signals of some available variables of the system. Comparisons with traditional methods of recurrence analysis show that the optimization method developed here is more sensitive to small variations occurring in a signal. The method is applied to numerically generated time series as well as experimental data from physiology

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