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 …

Sleep and human cognitive development

GM Mason, S Lokhandwala, T Riggins… - Sleep medicine …, 2021 - Elsevier
Emerging studies across learning domains have shed light on mechanisms underlying
sleep's benefits during numerous developmental periods. In this conceptual review, we …

[HTML][HTML] Relations between sleep patterns early in life and brain development: a review

S Lokhandwala, RMC Spencer - Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2022 - Elsevier
Sleep supports healthy cognitive functioning in adults. Over the past decade, research has
emerged advancing our understanding of sleep's role in cognition during development …

The need for sleep in the adolescent brain

A Galván - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Sleep is a basic need. Mounting evidence suggests this is particularly true during
adolescence, a developmental period involving substantial changes in the brain regions …

Slow oscillation-spindle coupling predicts enhanced memory formation from childhood to adolescence

MA Hahn, D Heib, M Schabus, K Hoedlmoser… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Precise temporal coordination of slow oscillations (SO) and sleep spindles is a fundamental
mechanism of sleep-dependent memory consolidation. SO and spindle morphology …

Focal sleep spindle deficits reveal focal thalamocortical dysfunction and predict cognitive deficits in sleep activated developmental epilepsy

MA Kramer, SM Stoyell, D Chinappen… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (CECTS) is the most common focal epilepsy
syndrome, yet the cause of this disease remains unknown. Now recognized as a mild …

Sleep electroencephalography and brain maturation: developmental trajectories and the relation with cognitive functioning

M Gorgoni, A D'Atri, S Scarpelli, F Reda, L De Gennaro - Sleep Medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Sleep has a crucial role in brain functioning and cognition, and several sleep
electroencephalography (EEG) hallmarks are associated with intellectual abilities, neural …

Sleep spindles in the healthy brain from birth through 18 years

H Kwon, KG Walsh, ED Berja, DS Manoach, UT Eden… - Sleep, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objective Sleep spindles are present from birth and reflect cognitive functions
across the lifespan, but normative values for this cognitive biomarker across development …

[HTML][HTML] Deep-spindle: An automated sleep spindle detection system for analysis of infant sleep spindles

L Wei, S Ventura, MA Ryan, S Mathieson… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background: Sleep spindles are an indicator of the development and integrity of the central
nervous system in infants. Identifying sleep spindles manually in EEG is time-consuming …

Dyscoordination of non-rapid eye movement sleep oscillations in autism spectrum disorder

D Mylonas, S Machado, O Larson, R Patel, R Cox… - Sleep, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objectives Converging evidence from neuroimaging, sleep, and genetic
studies suggest that dysregulation of thalamocortical interactions mediated by the thalamic …