The omitted first half of the sentence—“using a rare opportunity to directly record from the human thalamus…”—already highlights a key difference, among others.
Contrary to claims made here & elsewhere, we do mention Snipes (2025) in our paper, alongside other relevant reports of cortical activity.
Tobias Staudigl
"hitherto-unreported brain-state-specific oscillation of approximately 19–45 Hz"???
Sophia Snipes published a paper on very similar findings in scalp EEG:
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
The authors of the NHB paper were made aware of these findings! Quite disappointing...
High-frequency brain oscillations in humans are currently categorized into beta (13–30 Hz) and gamma (>30 Hz). Here, I introduce a new class of oscillations between 25 and 35 Hz, which I propose to ca...
Thalamic recordings show a rhythm that’s strong in wake and REM and absent in deep sleep: An electrophysiological signature of conscious states.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Chowdhury et al. report the discovery of a 19–45-Hz thalamic oscillation that is present during human wakefulness and REM sleep, but not NREM sleep.
