NREM and REM sleep: complementary roles in recovery after wakefulness

VV Vyazovskiy, A Delogu - The Neuroscientist, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The overall function of sleep is hypothesized to provide “recovery” after preceding waking
activities, thereby ensuring optimal functioning during subsequent wakefulness. However …

Sleep function: current questions and new approaches

A Vassalli, DJ Dijk - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The mammalian brain oscillates through three distinct global activity states: wakefulness,
non‐rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and REM sleep. The regulation and function of …

Neural and homeostatic regulation of REM sleep

SH Park, F Weber - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a distinct, homeostatically controlled brain state
characterized by an activated electroencephalogram (EEG) in combination with paralysis of …

[HTML][HTML] The microstructure of REM sleep: Why phasic and tonic?

P Simor, G van der Wijk, L Nobili, P Peigneux - Sleep medicine reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a peculiar neural state that occupies 20–25% of
nighttime sleep in healthy human adults and seems to play critical roles in a variety of …

[HTML][HTML] What is sleep exactly? Global and local modulations of sleep oscillations all around the clock

A Thomas, O Delphine - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Wakefulness, non-rapid eye-movement (NREM) and rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep differ
from each other along three dimensions: behavioral, phenomenological, physiological …

Functional roles of REM sleep

Y Mukai, A Yamanaka - Neuroscience Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is an enigmatic and intriguing sleep state. REM sleep
differs from non-REM sleep by its characteristic brain activity and from wakefulness by a …

Local aspects of sleep and wakefulness

F Siclari, G Tononi - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Why does sleep slow-wave activity increase after extended wake? Assessing the effects of increased cortical firing during wake and sleep

AV Rodriguez, CM Funk, VV Vyazovskiy… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
During non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, cortical neurons alternate between ON
periods of firing and OFF periods of silence. This bi-stability, which is largely synchronous …

Human REM sleep recalibrates neural activity in support of memory formation

JD Lendner, N Niethard, BA Mander… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The proposed mechanisms of sleep-dependent memory consolidation involve the overnight
regulation of neural activity at both synaptic and whole-network levels. Now, there is a lack …

The cognitive neuroscience of sleep: neuronal systems, consciousness and learning

JA Hobson, EF Pace-Schott - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2002 - nature.com
Sleep can be addressed across the entire hierarchy of biological organization. We discuss
neuronal-network and regional forebrain activity during sleep, and its consequences for …