Sleep spindles: mechanisms and functions

LMJ Fernandez, A Lüthi - Physiological reviews, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Sleep spindles are burstlike signals in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of the sleeping
mammalian brain and electrical surface correlates of neuronal oscillations in thalamus. As …

[HTML][HTML] Brain-computer interface: Advancement and challenges

MF Mridha, SC Das, MM Kabir, AA Lima, MR Islam… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is an advanced and multidisciplinary active research domain
based on neuroscience, signal processing, biomedical sensors, hardware, etc. Since the …

[HTML][HTML] Auditory closed-loop stimulation of the sleep slow oscillation enhances memory

HVV Ngo, T Martinetz, J Born, M Mölle - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
Brain rhythms regulate information processing in different states to enable learning and
memory formation. The< 1 Hz sleep slow oscillation hallmarks slow-wave sleep and is …

[HTML][HTML] Acoustic enhancement of sleep slow oscillations and concomitant memory improvement in older adults

NA Papalambros, G Santostasi, RG Malkani… - Frontiers in human …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Acoustic stimulation methods applied during sleep in young adults can increase slow wave
activity (SWA) and improve sleep-dependent memory retention. It is unknown whether this …

Slow-wave sleep: from the cell to the clinic

D Léger, E Debellemaniere, A Rabat, V Bayon… - Sleep medicine …, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent decades, increasing evidence has positioned slow-wave sleep (SWS) as a major
actor in neurophysiological phenomena such as glucose metabolism, hormone release …

[HTML][HTML] Sleep spindle refractoriness segregates periods of memory reactivation

JW Antony, L Piloto, M Wang, P Pacheco, KA Norman… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
The stability of long-term memories is enhanced by reactivation during sleep. Correlative
evidence has linked memory reactivation with thalamocortical sleep spindles, although their …

Upgrading the sleeping brain with targeted memory reactivation

D Oudiette, KA Paller - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2013 - cell.com
A fundamental feature of human memory is the propensity for beneficial changes in
information storage after initial encoding. Recent research findings favor the possibility that …

Biasing the content of hippocampal replay during sleep

D Bendor, MA Wilson - Nature neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
The hippocampus is essential for encoding self-experienced events into memory. During
sleep, neural activity in the hippocampus related to a recent experience has been observed …

Sleeping on the motor engram: the multifaceted nature of sleep-related motor memory consolidation

BR King, K Hoedlmoser, F Hirschauer, N Dolfen… - Neuroscience & …, 2017 - Elsevier
For the past two decades, it has generally been accepted that sleep benefits motor memory
consolidation processes. This notion, however, has been challenged by recent studies and …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancement of sleep slow waves: underlying mechanisms and practical consequences

M Bellesi, BA Riedner, GN Garcia-Molina… - Frontiers in systems …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Even modest sleep restriction, especially the loss of sleep slow wave activity (SWA), is
invariably associated with slower electroencephalogram (EEG) activity during wake, the …