Over more than a century of research has established the fact that sleep benefits the
retention of memory. In this review we aim to comprehensively cover the field of “sleep and …

Adolescence is marked by dramatic changes in sleep. Older adolescents go to bed later,
have an increased preference for evening activities, and sleep less than younger …

The most prominent EEG events in sleep are slow waves, reflecting a slow (< 1 Hz)
oscillation between up and down states in cortical neurons. It is unknown whether slow …

Falling asleep is paralleled by a loss of conscious awareness and reduced capacity to
process external stimuli. Little is known on sleep-associated changes of spontaneously …

A global workspace (GW) is a functional hub of binding and propagation in a population of
loosely coupled signaling elements. In computational applications, GW architectures recruit …

Slow waves are the most prominent electroencephalographic (EEG) feature of sleep. These
waves arise from the synchronization of slow oscillations in the membrane potentials of …

Descent into sleep is accompanied by disengagement of the conscious brain from the
external world. It follows that this process should be associated with reduced neural activity …

Slow wave sleep (SWS) is associated with spontaneous brain oscillations that are thought to
participate in sleep homeostasis and to support the processing of information related to the …

Alcohol acts as a sedative that interacts with several neurotransmitter systems important in
the regulation of sleep. Acute administration of large amounts of alcohol prior to sleep leads …

Functional brain imaging has been used in humans to noninvasively investigate the neural
mechanisms underlying the generation of sleep stages. On the one hand, REM sleep has …