INTRODUCTION Growing evidence supports a critical role of sleep slow waves (SW) in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, wake SW (sleep-like SW potentially reflecting local intrusions of sleep) remain ...

Blumberg et al. present video evidence of twitching during adult sleep in a diverse sample of animals. Adult twitching appears to selectively involve appendages used for active sensing, mirroring thei...

Synchronization of sharp-wave ripples across the dorsoventral hippocampus during sleep supports coordinated reactivation that represents negative experiences more faithfully than positive ones.

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is characterised by behavioural variability and heightened inattention associated with increased mind wandering (MW) and mind blanking (MB). Individuals...

Abstract. Dreams have arguably been a source of creative insight for millennia. The specific assertion that dreams during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep pr

INTRODUCTION: Growing evidence supports a critical role of sleep slow waves (SW) in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, wake SW (sleep-like SW potentially reflecting local intrusions of sleep) remain u...

March 7 – 10, 2026 CNS Account CNS 2026 | Workshops, Socials & Special Events   SESSION DATE TIME LOCATION Satellite – International Sleep Replay Workshop Friday, March 6 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Salon F Wor...

INTRODUCTION Research in the field of sleep, aging, and dementia is rapidly growing. Consensus guidance is needed to facilitate high-quality research, comparability, and consistency. METHODS A mod...

Yang et al. show that moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered bra...

Mind blanking (MB) is a mental state of seemingly no reportable thought content. The question of how we can entertain no thoughts while awake is challenging for the study of spontaneous thinking. By c...

Nature Human Behaviour - Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous

Can animals obtain core benefits of sleep while remaining awake? In mammals, slow-wave sleep is characterized by synchronized neuronal activity alternating between ON and OFF periods. Slow-wave activi...

npj Parkinson's Disease - Sleep stage mixing is associated with poor prognosis in early Parkinson’s disease

Researchers are spending an increasing fraction of their time on applying for funding; however, the current funding system has considerable deficiencies in reliably evaluating the merit of research p....

Chouvaeff et al. show that social defeat stress recruits prefrontal projections to the VLPO to selectively shorten REM sleep bouts, even after overall REM amounts return to baseline. This pathway prom...

Compared to controls, elderly expert meditators exhibited (1) more preserved resting-state brain activity, (2) less altered sleep architecture, and (3) EEG features indicative of heightened cognitive...

What if you could journey back in time to hear world-leading neuroscientists present the ideas that shaped today's brain science? A new open-access initiative led by researchers from the Donders Insti...

Prolonged wakefulness leads to persistent, deep recovery sleep (RS). However, the neuronal circuits that mediate this process remain elusive. From a circuit screen in mice, we identified a group of th...

INTRODUCTION Alzheimer's disease (AD) disrupts human sleep architecture more severely than normal aging. However, it remains unclear how AD changes oscillatory neural activity during sleep, and whet...

Abstract. Episodic memory consolidation relies on the functional specialization of brain networks and sleep quality, both of which are affected by aging. F