Sleep plays an important role in maintaining neuronal circuitry, signalling and helps
maintain overall health and wellbeing. Sleep deprivation (SD) disturbs the circadian …

A growing body of literature suggests that sleep plays a critical role in emotional processing.
This review aims at synthesizing current evidence on the role of sleep and sleep loss in the …

This review summarizes the brain mechanisms controlling sleep and wakefulness.
Wakefulness promoting systems cause low-voltage, fast activity in the …

Light exerts a wide range of effects on mammalian physiology and behavior. As well as
synchronizing circadian rhythms to the external environment, light has been shown to …

Despite the ongoing fundamental controversy about the physiological function of sleep,
there is general consensus that sleep benefits neuronal plasticity, which ultimately supports …

Although the functions of sleep remain largely unknown, one of the most exciting
hypotheses is that sleep contributes importantly to processes of memory and brain plasticity …

Learning and memory for extinction of conditioned fear is a basic mammalian mechanism for
regulating negative emotion. Sleep promotes both the consolidation of memory and the …

Major depression is a debilitating and recurrent disorder with a substantial lifetime risk and a
high social cost. Depressed patients generally display co-morbid symptoms, and depression …

Research over the last few decades has firmly established that new neurons are generated
in selected areas of the adult mammalian brain, particularly the dentate gyrus of the …

Background Childhood obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with
neuropsychological deficits of memory, learning, and executive function. There is no …