The thalamus is a small, bilateral structure in the diencephalon that integrates signals from
many areas of the CNS. This critical anatomical position allows the thalamus to influence …

Sleep is a core behavior of adolescents, consuming up to a third or more of each day. As
part of this special issue on the adolescent brain, we review changes to sleep behaviors and …

While the interaction of the cardinal rhythms of non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep—the
thalamo-cortical spindles, hippocampal ripples, and the cortical slow oscillations—is thought …

There is robust evidence of an association between insomnia, anxiety, and depression in
adolescence. The aim of this review is to describe and synthesize potential mechanisms …

Brain activity during sleep is characterized by circuit-specific oscillations, including slow
waves, spindles and theta waves, which are nested in thalamocortical or hippocampal …

Sleep is a complex physiological process that is regulated globally, regionally, and locally
by both cellular and molecular mechanisms. It occurs to some extent in all animals, although …

While shaped and constrained by axonal connections, fMRI-based functional connectivity
reorganizes in response to varying interareal input or pathological perturbations. However …

Abstract Slow waves (0.5–4 Hz) predominate in the cortical electroencephalogram during
non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep in mammals. They reflect the synchronization of …

During even the most quiescent behavioral periods, the cortex and thalamus express rich
spontaneous activity in the form of slow (< 1 Hz), synchronous network state transitions …

Despite decades of intense study, the functions of sleep are still shrouded in mystery. The
difficulty in understanding these functions can be at least partly attributed to the varied …