The dynamics of cortical neuronal activity in the first minutes after spontaneous awakening in rats and mice

VV Vyazovskiy, N Cui, AV Rodriguez, C Funk, C Cirelli… - Sleep, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objective: Upon awakening from sleep, a fully awake brain state is not
reestablished immediately, but the origin and physiological properties of the distinct brain …

Sleeping on the wing

NC Rattenborg - Interface Focus, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Wakefulness enables animals to interface adaptively with the environment. Paradoxically, in
insects to humans, the efficacy of wakefulness depends on daily sleep, a mysterious, usually …

Optogenetic control of hypocretin (orexin) neurons and arousal circuits

L de Lecea - Sleep, Neuronal Plasticity and Brain Function, 2015 - Springer
In 1998, our group discovered a cDNA that encoded the precursor of two putative
neuropeptides that we called hypocretins for their hypothalamic expression and their …

Cortico-autonomic local arousals and heightened somatosensory arousability during NREMS of mice in neuropathic pain

R Cardis, S Lecci, LMJ Fernandez, A Osorio-Forero… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Frequent nightly arousals typical for sleep disorders cause daytime fatigue and present
health risks. As such arousals are often short, partial, or occur locally within the brain …

Microglial TNFα controls daily changes in synaptic GABAARs and sleep slow waves

MJ Pinto, L Bizien, JMJ Fabre, N Ðukanović… - Journal of Cell …, 2024 - rupress.org
Microglia sense the changes in their environment. How microglia actively translate these
changes into suitable cues to adapt brain physiology is unknown. We reveal an activity …

Sleep enhances learning of a functional motor task in young adults

A Al-Sharman, CF Siengsukon - Physical therapy, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background Sleep has been demonstrated to enhance simple motor skill learning “offline” in
young adults.“Offline learning” refers to either the stabilization or the enhancement of a …

[HTML][HTML] Role of slow oscillatory activity and slow wave sleep in consolidation of episodic-like memory in rats

CN Oyanedel, S Binder, E Kelemen, K Petersen… - Behavioural brain …, 2014 - Elsevier
Our previous experiments showed that sleep in rats enhances consolidation of
hippocampus dependent episodic-like memory, ie the ability to remember an event bound …

[HTML][HTML] Modulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis by sleep: impact on mental health

C Navarro-Sanchis, O Brock… - Frontiers in neural …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The process of neurogenesis has been demonstrated to occur throughout life in the
subgranular zone (SGZ) of the hippocampal dentate gyrus of several mammals, including …

Synergistic effect of acetylcholinesterase inhibition (donepezil) and 5-HT4 receptor activation (RS67333) on object recognition in mice

T Freret, V Bouet, A Quiedeville, G Nee… - Behavioural brain …, 2012 - Elsevier
Facing inefficiency of current treatments to cure Alzheimer disease (AD), a pharmacological
approach is now emerging on the assumption that a single compound may be able to hit …

Optical probing of orexin/hypocretin receptor antagonists

SB Li, N Nevárez, WJ Giardino, L de Lecea - Sleep, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objectives The present study investigated the function of Hypocretin (Hcrt or
Orexin/OX) receptor antagonists in sleep modulation and memory function with optical …