To understand what makes sleep vulnerable in disease, it is useful to look at how wake-
promoting mechanisms affect healthy sleep. Wake-promoting neuronal activity is inhibited …

The stability of long-term memories is enhanced by reactivation during sleep. Correlative
evidence has linked memory reactivation with thalamocortical sleep spindles, although their …

During wakefulness, pupil diameter can reflect changes in attention, vigilance, and cortical
states. How pupil size relates to cortical activity during sleep, however, remains unknown …

What accounts for feeling deeply asleep? Standard sleep recordings only incompletely
reflect subjective aspects of sleep and some individuals with so-called sleep misperception …

In humans and other mammals, the stillness of sleep is punctuated by bursts of rapid eye
movements (REMs) and myoclonic twitches of the limbs. 1 Like the spontaneous activity that …

Sleep benefits the consolidation of motor skills learned by physical practice, mainly through
periodic thalamocortical sleep spindle activity. However, motor skills can be learned without …

Sleep disturbances are detrimental to our behavioral and emotional well-being. Stressful
events disrupt sleep, in particular by inducing brief awakenings (microarousals, MAs) …

Sleep involves infra-slow∼ 50-second fluctuations between disengagement and sensory
reactivity. New findings reveal that the brain's noradrenaline system controls these dynamics …

What can eyes tell us about what happens during sleep? Their movements split sleep into
two distinct states—rapid-eye-movement (REM) or non-REM sleep. A new study now …

Sleep: The Sensory Disconnection of Dreams: Current Biology Skip to Main Content
Advertisement Current Biology This journal offers authors two options (open access or …