Investigating sleep in mental disorders has the potential to reveal both disorder-specific and
transdiagnostic psychophysiological mechanisms. This meta-analysis aimed at determining …

Sleep is implicated in cognitive functioning in young adults. With increasing age, there are
substantial changes to sleep quantity and quality, including changes to slow-wave sleep …

BACKGROUND: Sleep spindles are thought to induce synaptic changes and thereby
contribute to memory consolidation during sleep. Patients with schizophrenia show dramatic …

Sleep is strongly involved in memory consolidation, but its role remains unclear.'Sleep
replay', the active potentiation of relevant synaptic connections via reactivation of patterns of …

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 …

Transient episodes of brain oscillations are a common feature of both the waking and the
sleeping brain. Sleep spindles represent a prominent example of a poorly understood …

Sleep disturbances are commonly observed in schizophrenia, including in chronic, early-
course, and first-episode patients. This has generated considerable interest, both in clinical …

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 …

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 …

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 …