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Mircea Steriade (August 20, 1924 – April 14, 2006), MD, DSc, was a prominent researcher in systems neuroscience.

He was born in Bucharest, Romania, and studied medicine at University of Bucharest.

In the early hours of April 14, Mircea Steriade died of lung cancer.

Mircea Steriade was born in , in Bucharest (Romania) where he obtained his M.D. and He made a postdoctoral stage with F. Bremer in Belgium.

Mircea Steriade pioneered research that identified the network operations and neuronal properties in corticothalamic systems, which are implicated in the.

The correct functioning of the mammalian brain depends on the inte- grated activity of myriad neuronal and non-neuronal cells.

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He emigrated to Canada in 1968, where he became a professor of physiology at Université Laval in Quebec, a position he held for the rest of his life.

He is the father of linguist, Donca Steriade.^[1]

Research

While at Laval University, he discovered that the slow oscillations of NREM sleep arise when groups of neurons fire together for a little while (so-called "on periods"), then fall silent for about a fraction of a second ("off periods"), and then resume their synchronized firing.

This was one of the fundamental discoveries in sleep research. After his discovery, scientists have also discovered that in birds and mammals, the slow waves are large if preceded by a long period of wakefulness and become smaller as sleep goes on.

The majority of his rese