Sleep spindles are burstlike signals in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of the sleeping
mammalian brain and electrical surface correlates of neuronal oscillations in thalamus. As …

Although schizophrenia (SZ) is defined by waking phenomena, abnormal sleep is a
common feature. In particular, there is accumulating evidence of a sleep spindle deficit …

Sleep spindles are characteristic electroencephalogram (EEG) signatures of stage 2 non-
rapid eye movement sleep. Implicated in sleep regulation and cognitive functioning …

Sleep spindles are transient oscillatory waveforms that occur during non-rapid eye
movement (NREM) sleep across widespread cortical areas. In humans, spindles can be …

Sleep is essential for effective cognitive functioning. Loosing even a few hours of sleep can
have detrimental effects on a wide variety of cognitive processes such as attention …

Since the advent of EEG recordings, sleep spindles have been identified as hallmarks of
non‐REM sleep. Despite a broad general understanding of mechanisms of spindle …

Highlights•Behavioral determinants and neural correlates of motor sequence
learning.•Advances in methodological approaches and neuroimaging data analyses.•Motor …

There is overwhelming evidence that sleep is crucial for memory consolidation. Patients with
schizophrenia and their unaffected relatives have a specific deficit in sleep spindles, a …

It is possible that one of the essential functions of sleep is to take out the garbage, as it were,
erasing and “forgetting” information built up throughout the day that would clutter the …

Sleep disturbances are common in people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and have been
associated with increased symptom severity, neurocognitive deficits and reduced quality of …