This review summarises the literature on shift work and its relation to insufficient sleep,
chronic diseases, and accidents. It is based on 38 meta-analyses and 24 systematic …

Highlights•Slow waves of NREM sleep can occur locally and asynchronously across brain
regions.•Their regional distribution and amplitude is in part mediated by experience …

Despite the absence of responsiveness during anesthesia, conscious experience may
persist. However, reliable, easily acquirable and interpretable neurophysiological markers of …

Human electroencephalographic (EEG) oscillations characterize specific behavioral and
vigilance states. The frequency of these oscillations is typically sufficient to distinguish a …

Sleep deprivation is a major source of morbidity with widespread health effects, including
increased risk of hypertension, diabetes, obesity, heart attack, and stroke. Moreover, sleep …

Even modest sleep restriction, especially the loss of sleep slow wave activity (SWA), is
invariably associated with slower electroencephalogram (EEG) activity during wake, the …

Night-shift workers are at high risk of drowsiness-related motor vehicle crashes as a result of
circadian disruption and sleep restriction. However, the impact of actual night-shift work on …

Sleep is universal in animals, but its specific functions remain elusive. We propose that
sleep's primary function is to allow individual neurons to perform prophylactic cellular …

Neurofeedback (NFB) is emerging as a promising technique that enables self-regulation of
ongoing brain oscillations. However, despite a rise in empirical evidence attesting to its …

Attentional lapses occur commonly and are associated with mind wandering, where focus is
turned to thoughts unrelated to ongoing tasks and environmental demands, or mind …