Reconsidering sleep perception in insomnia: from misperception to mismeasurement

AM Stephan, F Siclari - Journal of Sleep Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
So‐called 'sleep misperception'refers to a phenomenon in which individuals have the
impression of sleeping little or not at all despite normal objective measures of sleep. It is …

Adrenergic mechanisms of absence status epilepticus

E Sitnikova - Frontiers in Neurology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Absence status epilepticus is a prolonged, generalized absence seizure that lasts more than
half an hour. The mechanisms underlying the absence of status epilepticus are still not …

Sleep spindle architecture associated with distinct clinical phenotypes in older adults at risk for dementia

IF Orlando, C O'Callaghan, A Lam, AC McKinnon… - Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
Sleep spindles are a hallmark of non-REM sleep and play a fundamental role in memory
consolidation. Alterations in these spindles are emerging as sensitive biomarkers for …

Reproducible, data-driven characterization of sleep based on brain dynamics and transitions from whole-night fMRI

FN Yang, D Picchioni, JA de Zwart, Y Wang… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Understanding the function of sleep requires studying the dynamics of brain activity across
whole-night sleep and their transitions. However, current gold standard polysomnography …

Sleep disturbance correlated with severity of neuropathic pain in sciatic nerve crush injury model

A Ho, SJ Lee, VJ Drew, J Jung, J Kang… - Journal of Sleep …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The association between sleep and pain has been investigated widely. However,
inconsistent results from animal studies compared with human data show the need for a …

Homeostatic regulation of rapid eye movement sleep by the preoptic area of the hypothalamus

JJ Maurer, A Lin, X Jin, J Hong, N Sathi, R Cardis… - eLife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Rapid eye movement sleep (REMs) is characterized by activated electroencephalogram
(EEG) and muscle atonia, accompanied by vivid dreams. REMs is homeostatically …

Circuit mechanism underlying fragmented sleep and memory deficits in 16p11. 2 deletion mouse model of autism

A Choi, B Kim, E Labriola, A Wiest, Y Wang, J Smith… - iScience, 2024 - cell.com
Sleep disturbances are prevalent in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Strikingly,
sleep problems are positively correlated with the severity of ASD symptoms, such as …

Pupil size reveals arousal level dynamics in human sleep

M Carro-Domínguez, S Huwiler, S Oberlin, TL Oesch… - Biorxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Changes in arousal level are a determining characteristic of healthy and
pathological sleep in humans, but how they are conventionally measured lack sensitivity …

Sleep and cardiac autonomic modulation in older adults: Insights from an at‐home study with auditory deep sleep stimulation

S Huwiler, ML Ferster, L Brogli, R Huber… - Journal of Sleep …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The autonomic nervous system regulates cardiovascular activity during sleep, likely
impacting cardiovascular health. Aging, a primary cardiovascular risk factor, is associated …

Fractal cycles of sleep: a new aperiodic activity-based definition of sleep cycles

Y Rosenblum, MJ Esfahani, N Adelhöfer, P Zerr… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Nocturnal human sleep consists of 4–6 ninety-minute cycles defined as episodes of non-
rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep followed by an episode of REM sleep. While sleep …