Over more than a century of research has established the fact that sleep benefits the
retention of memory. In this review we aim to comprehensively cover the field of “sleep and …

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 …

Healthy aging is characterized by a diminished quality of sleep with decreased sleep
duration and increased time awake after sleep onset. Older adults awaken more frequently …

Despite advancements in understanding the pathophysiology of stroke and the state of the
art in acute management of afflicted patients as well as in subsequent neurorehabilitation …

The influence of sleep on motor skill consolidation has been a research topic of increasing
interest. In this study, we distinguished general skill learning from sequence-specific …

Sleep benefits memory across a range of tasks for young adults. However, remarkably little
is known of the role of sleep on memory for healthy older adults. We used 2 tasks, 1 …

Background Studies in young healthy volunteers provided evidence of a beneficial impact of
an anodal time-varied transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) during early slow wave …

Objectives. Implicit skill learning underlies not only motor but also cognitive and social skills;
it is therefore an important aspect of life from infancy to old age. We studied aging effects on …

Sleep quality and architecture as well as sleep's homeostatic and circadian controls change
with healthy aging. Changes include reductions in slow-wave sleep's (SWS) percent and …

Background and purpose: In work with chronic stroke patients the authors observed that
patients frequently appear sleepy and often comment on their poor sleep. Sleep difficulties …