Sleep spindles: mechanisms and functions

LMJ Fernandez, A Lüthi - Physiological reviews, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Sleep spindles are burstlike signals in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of the sleeping
mammalian brain and electrical surface correlates of neuronal oscillations in thalamus. As …

Mechanisms underlying the association between insomnia, anxiety, and depression in adolescence: implications for behavioral sleep interventions

MJ Blake, JA Trinder, NB Allen - Clinical psychology review, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Tapping the brakes: cellular and synaptic mechanisms that regulate thalamic oscillations

PM Fogerson, JR Huguenard - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Thalamic oscillators contribute to both normal rhythms associated with sleep and anesthesia
and abnormal, hypersynchronous oscillations that manifest behaviorally as absence …

A sleep spindle detection algorithm that emulates human expert spindle scoring

K Lacourse, J Delfrate, J Beaudry, P Peppard… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Sleep spindles are a marker of stage 2 NREM sleep that are linked to learning
& memory and are altered by many neurological diseases. Although visual inspection of the …

The bidirectional relation between emotional reactivity and sleep: From disruption to recovery.

E Altena, JA Micoulaud-Franchi… - Behavioral …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Sleep disturbances are highly prevalent and greatly affect consecutive emotional reactivity,
while sleep quality itself can be strongly affected by reactions to previous emotional events …

The accuracy, night-to-night variability, and stability of frontopolar sleep electroencephalography biomarkers

DJ Levendowski, L Ferini-Strambi… - Journal of Clinical …, 2017 - jcsm.aasm.org
Study Objectives: To assess the validity of sleep architecture and sleep continuity
biomarkers obtained from a portable, multichannel forehead electroencephalography (EEG) …

The resilient brain and the guardians of sleep: new perspectives on old assumptions

L Parrino, AE Vaudano - Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Resilience is the capacity of a system, enterprise or a person to maintain its core purpose
and integrity in the face of dramatically changed circumstances. In human physiology …

A deep learning approach for real-time detection of sleep spindles

PM Kulkarni, Z Xiao, EJ Robinson… - Journal of neural …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Sleep spindles have been implicated in memory consolidation and synaptic
plasticity during NREM sleep. Detection accuracy and latency in automatic spindle detection …

Sleep spindles and intellectual ability: epiphenomenon or directly related?

Z Fang, V Sergeeva, LB Ray, J Viczko… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
Sleep spindles—short, phasic, oscillatory bursts of activity that characterize non-rapid eye
movement sleep—are one of the only electrophysiological oscillations identified as a …

Sleep spindles as an electrographic element: description and automatic detection methods

D Coppieters't Wallant, P Maquet, C Phillips - Neural Plasticity, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Sleep spindle is a peculiar oscillatory brain pattern which has been associated with a
number of sleep (isolation from exteroceptive stimuli, memory consolidation) and individual …