Sleep and Wakefulness Research

The paper analyzes EEG microstate dynamics in lucid versus non-lucid REM sleep, finding distinct microstate patterns associated with different cognitive and emotional functions.

This study shows that memory reactivation during sleep promotes structural abstraction, enabling knowledge transfer between categories with no feature overlap.

The paper identifies cell-type-specific genes regulating sleep by mapping GWAS variants to effector genes in human and Drosophila models, revealing ruby/AP3B2 as a conserved glial regulator.

The paper shows that NREM sleep oscillations drive synaptic proteome remodelling, promoting stabilization and memory consolidation, while altered oscillations in a disorder lead to synaptic weakening.

The paper identifies two distinct slow-wave subtypes in NREM sleep based on thalamic involvement and synchronization mechanisms using EEG-fMRI data.

This study decomposes representational drift in mice olfactory cortex during wake and sleep, showing distinct transformations driven by each state.

This study identifies a subset of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons that are selectively reactivated by repeated sleep deprivation and shows associated molecular changes.

This paper identifies Vgll2 and Tead1 as key regulators of Hcrt neuron generation in mouse and human, showing their role in differentiation and potential for cell therapy.

The paper examines how sleep stages and PTSD status affect emotional memory accuracy through neural responses to visual stimuli in men and women.

This study shows that chronic short sleep in early life accelerates cognitive decline by disrupting proteostasis and increasing neuroinflammation in mice.

This paper investigates sleep and activity patterns in a mouse model of early onset Alzheimer's disease, finding a long wake/short sleep phenotype more pronounced in females.

The paper shows that slow-wave activity (SWA) predicts neurobehavioral fatigue differently during sleep and wakefulness, outperforming clinical sleep metrics in modeling recovery from sleep deprivation.

This paper investigates lucid dream induction using virtual reality and sensory stimulation in a lab setting, finding that explicit context training is more effective than additional technological interventions.

This study examines how immersive NREM dreaming affects perceived sleep depth despite declining sleep pressure.

This study shows sleep deprivation impairs information processing in the prefrontal cortex by disrupting chloride homeostasis through KCC2 reduction and BDNF-TrkB signaling, which can be mitigated by bumetanide or AP synthesis blockade.

The paper examines how neural responses to external and internal signals shift during different REM sleep states, finding increased internal signal processing in phasic REM.

The paper identifies an 11-fold increase in CD4+ T-cells in the hypocretin region of NT1 brains, correlating with symptom severity.

The paper shows that prey-like individuals in a video game show improved performance after sleep with more slow waves and game-related dreams.

This study shows that reactivating conflicting memories during sleep reduces decision ambivalence by integrating them, as evidenced by behavioral and electrophysiological measures.

This study investigates whether muscle and vestibular stimulation can induce lucid dreams, finding that galvanic vestibular stimulation increases dream lucidity while muscle stimulation does not.

This study identifies a hypothalamic orexin pathway to the medial amygdala that links anesthetic state transitions to vigilance behaviors.

The paper shows that re-emerging negative neural patterns during sleep and rest predict higher depressive symptoms.

The paper shows that sleep helps maintain negativity bias after stress by shaping neural representations during sleep.

The paper shows that memory transfer between declarative and procedural systems occurs through rapid stability shifts during NREM and REM sleep in humans.

This study tracks EEG changes in infant sleep from 3 to 6 months, showing regional and frequency-specific maturation patterns linked to developmental outcomes.

This study uses optogenetic stimulation to show that sustained neuronal excitation in human SH-SY5Y cells generates staged, wake-like transcriptional progression through distinct temporal gene modules.

The paper investigates how sleep deprivation affects dendritic spine density in neurons encoding contextual fear memories, finding reduced spine density in sleep-deprived mice.

This study uses computational modeling to show how lexical decision-making adapts across different sleep states, revealing state-specific changes in cognitive processing strategies.

This study examines how brief sleep deprivation after learning affects synaptic structures of SST+ interneurons in the entorhinal cortex, revealing subregion-specific changes in dendritic spines and excitatory/inhibitory balance.

The paper analyzes prediction error processing during sleep using information-theoretic methods, finding reduced and redundant neural information with deeper sleep and REM.