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Rosenblum Y, Pereira M, Stange O, Weber FD, Bovy L, Tzioridou S, Lancini E, Neville DA, Klein N, de Wolff T, Stritzke M, Kersten I, Uhr M, Claassen JAHR, Steiger A, Verbeek MM, Dresler M. Divergent Associations of Slow-Wave Sleep versus Rapid Eye Movement Sleep with Plasma Amyloid-Beta. Ann Neurol 2024. [PMID: 38624158 DOI: 10.1002/ana.26935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/17/2024]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Recent evidence shows that during slow-wave sleep (SWS), the brain is cleared from potentially toxic metabolites, such as the amyloid-beta protein. Poor sleep or elevated cortisol levels can worsen amyloid-beta clearance, potentially leading to the formation of amyloid plaques, a neuropathological hallmark of Alzheimer disease. Here, we explored how nocturnal neural and endocrine activity affects amyloid-beta fluctuations in the peripheral blood. METHODS We acquired simultaneous polysomnography and all-night blood sampling in 60 healthy volunteers aged 20-68 years. Nocturnal plasma concentrations of amyloid-beta-40, amyloid-beta-42, cortisol, and growth hormone were assessed every 20 minutes. Amyloid-beta fluctuations were modeled with sleep stages, (non)oscillatory power, and hormones as predictors while controlling for age and participant-specific random effects. RESULTS Amyloid-beta-40 and amyloid-beta-42 levels correlated positively with growth hormone concentrations, SWS proportion, and slow-wave (0.3-4Hz) oscillatory and high-band (30-48Hz) nonoscillatory power, but negatively with cortisol concentrations and rapid eye movement sleep (REM) proportion measured 40-100 minutes previously (all t values > |3|, p values < 0.003). Older participants showed higher amyloid-beta-40 levels. INTERPRETATION Slow-wave oscillations are associated with higher plasma amyloid-beta levels, whereas REM sleep is related to decreased amyloid-beta plasma levels, possibly representing changes in central amyloid-beta production or clearance. Strong associations between cortisol, growth hormone, and amyloid-beta presumably reflect the sleep-regulating role of the corresponding releasing hormones. A positive association between age and amyloid-beta-40 may indicate that peripheral clearance becomes less efficient with age. ANN NEUROL 2024.
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- Yevgenia Rosenblum
- Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Magdeburg, Germany
- Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Chair of Uncertainty Quantification and Statistical Learning, Department of Statistics, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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- Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Analysis und Algebra, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Departments of Neurology and Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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Jafarzadeh Esfahani M, Sikder N, Ter Horst R, Daraie AH, Appel K, Weber FD, Bevelander KE, Dresler M. Citizen neuroscience: Wearable technology and open software to study the human brain in its natural habitat. Eur J Neurosci 2024; 59:948-965. [PMID: 38328991 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.16227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2023] [Revised: 11/09/2023] [Accepted: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 02/09/2024]
Abstract
Citizen science allows the public to participate in various stages of scientific research, including study design, data acquisition, and data analysis. Citizen science has a long history in several fields of the natural sciences, and with recent developments in wearable technology, neuroscience has also become more accessible to citizen scientists. This development was largely driven by the influx of minimal sensing systems in the consumer market, allowing more do-it-yourself (DIY) and quantified-self (QS) investigations of the human brain. While most subfields of neuroscience require sophisticated monitoring devices and laboratories, the study of sleep characteristics can be performed at home with relevant noninvasive consumer devices. The strong influence of sleep quality on waking life and the accessibility of devices to measure sleep are two primary reasons citizen scientists have widely embraced sleep research. Their involvement has evolved from solely contributing to data collection to engaging in more collaborative or autonomous approaches, such as instigating ideas, formulating research inquiries, designing research protocols and methodology, acting upon their findings, and disseminating results. In this article, we introduce the emerging field of citizen neuroscience, illustrating examples of such projects in sleep research. We then provide overviews of the wearable technologies for tracking human neurophysiology and various open-source software used to analyse them. Finally, we discuss the opportunities and challenges in citizen neuroscience projects and suggest how to improve the study of the human brain outside the laboratory.
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Faculty of Technology and Bionics, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Kleve, Germany
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- CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Primary and Community Care, Radboud University and Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Rosenblum Y, Weber FD, Rak M, Zavecz Z, Kunath N, Breitenstein B, Rasch B, Zeising M, Uhr M, Steiger A, Dresler M. Sustained polyphasic sleep restriction abolishes human growth hormone release. Sleep 2024; 47:zsad321. [PMID: 38124288 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsad321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Revised: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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STUDY OBJECTIVES Voluntary sleep restriction is a common phenomenon in industrialized societies aiming to increase time spent awake and thus productivity. We explored how restricting sleep to a radically polyphasic schedule affects neural, cognitive, and endocrine characteristics. METHODS Ten young healthy participants were restricted to one 20-minute nap opportunity at the end of every 4 hours (i.e. six sleep episodes per 24 hours) without any extended core sleep window, which resulted in a cumulative sleep amount of just 2 hours per day (i.e. ~20 minutes per bout). RESULTS All but one participant terminated this schedule during the first month. The remaining participant (a 25-year-old male) succeeded in adhering to a polyphasic schedule for five out of the eight planned weeks. Cognitive and psychiatric measures showed modest changes during polyphasic as compared to monophasic sleep, while in-blood cortisol or melatonin release patterns and amounts were apparently unaltered. In contrast, growth hormone release was almost entirely abolished (>95% decrease), with the residual release showing a considerably changed polyphasic secretional pattern. CONCLUSIONS Even though the study was initiated by volunteers with exceptional intrinsic motivation and commitment, none of them could tolerate the intended 8 weeks of the polyphasic schedule. Considering the decreased vigilance, abolished growth hormone release, and neurophysiological sleep changes observed, it is doubtful that radically polyphasic sleep schedules can subserve the different functions of sleep to a sufficient degree.
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- Yevgenia Rosenblum
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Center for Human Sleep Science, Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Division of Biopsychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Klinikum Ingolstadt, Centre of Mental Health, Ingolstadt, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Cox R, Rösler L, Weber FD, Blanken TF, Wassing R, Ramautar JR, Van Someren EJW. The first-night effect and the consistency of short sleep in insomnia disorder. J Sleep Res 2024; 33:e13897. [PMID: 37020309 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.13897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Revised: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 04/07/2023]
Abstract
The nature and degree of objective sleep impairments in insomnia disorder remain unclear. This issue is complicated further by potential changes in sleep architecture on the first compared with subsequent nights in the laboratory. Evidence regarding differential first-night effects in people with insomnia disorder and controls is mixed. Here, we aimed to further characterize insomnia- and night-related differences in sleep architecture. A comprehensive set of 26 sleep variables was derived from two consecutive nights of polysomnography in 61 age-matched patients with insomnia and 61 good sleeper controls. People with insomnia expressed consistently poorer sleep than controls on several variables during both nights. While poorer sleep during the first night was observed in both groups, there were qualitative differences regarding the specific sleep variables expressing a first-night effect. Short sleep (total sleep time < 6 hr) was more likely during the first night and in insomnia, although approximately 40% of patients with insomnia presenting with short sleep on night 1 no longer met this criterion on night 2, which is important given the notion of short-sleeping insomnia as a robust subtype.
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- Roy Cox
- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Psychological Methods, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Integrated Research and Understanding of Sleep (CIRUS), Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, The Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- N=You Neurodevelopmental Precision Center, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychosocial Care, Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Departments of Integrative Neurophysiology and Psychiatry, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Hanert A, Schönfeld R, Weber FD, Nowak A, Döhring J, Philippen S, Granert O, Burgalossi A, Born J, Berg D, Göder R, Häussermann P, Bartsch T. Reduced overnight memory consolidation and associated alterations in sleep spindles and slow oscillations in early Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Dis 2024; 190:106378. [PMID: 38103701 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2023.106378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2023] [Revised: 12/11/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023] Open
Abstract
Spatial navigation critically underlies hippocampal-entorhinal circuit function that is early affected in Alzheimer's disease (AD). There is growing evidence that AD pathophysiology dynamically interacts with the sleep/wake cycle impairing hippocampal memory. To elucidate sleep-dependent consolidation in a cohort of symptomatic AD patients (n = 12, 71.25 ± 2.16 years), we tested hippocampal place learning by means of a virtual reality task and verbal memory by a word-pair association task before and after a night of sleep. Our results show an impaired overnight memory retention in AD compared with controls in the verbal task, together with a significant reduction of sleep spindle activity (i.e., lower amplitude of fast sleep spindles, p = 0.016) and increased duration of the slow oscillation (SO; p = 0.019). Higher spindle density, faster down-to-upstate transitions within SOs, and the time delay between SOs and nested spindles predicted better memory performance in healthy controls but not in AD patients. Our results show that mnemonic processing and memory consolidation in AD is slightly impaired as reflected by dysfunctional oscillatory dynamics and spindle-SO coupling during NonREM sleep. In this translational study based on experimental paradigms in animals and extending previous work in healthy aging and preclinical disease stages, our results in symptomatic AD further deepen the understanding of the memory decline within a bidirectional relationship of sleep and AD pathology.
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- Annika Hanert
- Department of Neurology, Memory Disorders and Plasticity Group, University Hospital of Schleswig Holstein, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, 06099 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institute for Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, 6525 EN Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1105 BA Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Sleep Laboratory, University Hospital of Schleswig Holstein, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Memory Disorders and Plasticity Group, University Hospital of Schleswig Holstein, 24105 Kiel, Germany; Institute for General Medicine, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Memory Disorders and Plasticity Group, University Hospital of Schleswig Holstein, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Memory Disorders and Plasticity Group, University Hospital of Schleswig Holstein, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Neurobiology, Werner-Reichardt Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Memory Disorders and Plasticity Group, University Hospital of Schleswig Holstein, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Sleep Laboratory, University Hospital of Schleswig Holstein, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Geriatric Psychiatry, LVR Klinik Köln, Academic Teaching Hospital, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Memory Disorders and Plasticity Group, University Hospital of Schleswig Holstein, 24105 Kiel, Germany.
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Esfahani MJ, Farboud S, Ngo HVV, Schneider J, Weber FD, Talamini LM, Dresler M. Closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep slow oscillations: Basic principles and best practices. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2023; 153:105379. [PMID: 37660843 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Revised: 08/25/2023] [Accepted: 08/30/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023]
Abstract
Sleep is essential for our physical and mental well-being. During sleep, despite the paucity of overt behavior, our brain remains active and exhibits a wide range of coupled brain oscillations. In particular slow oscillations are characteristic for sleep, however whether they are directly involved in the functions of sleep, or are mere epiphenomena, is not yet fully understood. To disentangle the causality of these relationships, experiments utilizing techniques to detect and manipulate sleep oscillations in real-time are essential. In this review, we first overview the theoretical principles of closed-loop auditory stimulation (CLAS) as a method to study the role of slow oscillations in the functions of sleep. We then describe technical guidelines and best practices to perform CLAS and analyze results from such experiments. We further provide an overview of how CLAS has been used to investigate the causal role of slow oscillations in various sleep functions. We close by discussing important caveats, open questions, and potential topics for future research.
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Essex, United Kingdom; Department of Psychology, University of Lübeck, Germany; Center for Brain, Behaviour and Metabolism, University of Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Department of Neurology, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboudumc, the Netherlands; Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboudumc, the Netherlands.
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Rosenblum Y, Bovy L, Weber FD, Steiger A, Zeising M, Dresler M. Increased Aperiodic Neural Activity During Sleep in Major Depressive Disorder. Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci 2023; 3:1021-1029. [PMID: 37881583 PMCID: PMC10593867 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2022.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Revised: 09/28/2022] [Accepted: 10/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Background In major depressive disorder (MDD), patients often express subjective sleep complaints, while polysomnographic studies report only subtle alterations of the electroencephalographic signal. We hypothesize that differentiating the signal into its oscillatory and aperiodic components may bring new insights into our understanding of sleep abnormalities in MDD. Specifically, we investigated aperiodic neural activity during sleep and its relationships with sleep architecture, depression severity, and responsivity to antidepressant treatment. Methods Polysomnography was recorded in 38 patients with MDD (in unmedicated and 7-day-medicated states) and 38 age-matched healthy control subjects (N= 76). The aperiodic power component was calculated using irregularly resampled auto-spectral analysis. Depression severity was assessed with the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. We replicated the analysis using 2 independently collected datasets of medicated patients and control subjects (N = 60 and N = 80, respectively). Results Unmedicated patients showed flatter aperiodic slopes compared with control subjects during non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) stage 2 sleep (p = .009). Medicated patients showed flatter aperiodic slopes compared with their earlier unmedicated state (p values < .001) and control subjects during all sleep stages (p values < .03). In medicated patients, flatter aperiodic slopes during non-REM sleep were linked to the higher proportion of N1, lower proportion of REM, delayed onset of N3 and REM, and shorter total sleep time. Conclusions Flatter slopes of aperiodic electroencephalographic power may reflect noisier neural activity due to increased excitation-to-inhibition balance, representing a new disease-relevant feature of sleep in MDD.
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- Yevgenia Rosenblum
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Centre of Mental Health, Klinikum Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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Champetier P, André C, Weber FD, Rehel S, Ourry V, Laniepce A, Lutz A, Bertran F, Cabé N, Pitel AL, Poisnel G, de la Sayette V, Vivien D, Chételat G, Rauchs G. Age-related changes in fast spindle clustering during NREM sleep and their relevance for memory consolidation. Sleep 2022; 46:6847539. [PMID: 36433753 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsac282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Revised: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Sleep plays a crucial role in memory consolidation. Recent data in rodents and young adults revealed that fast spindle band power fluctuates at a 0.02-Hz infraslow scale during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. These fluctuations result from a periodic temporal clustering of spindles and may modulate sleep maintenance and memory consolidation. With age, sleep undergoes substantial changes but age-related changes in spindle clustering have never been investigated. Polysomnography data were collected in 147 older (mean age ± SD: 69.3 ± 4.1 years) and 32 young-middle aged (34.5 ± 10.9 years) adults. Sleep-dependent memory consolidation was assessed in a subsample of 57 older adults using a visuospatial memory task. We analyzed power fluctuations in fast spindle frequency band, detected fast spindles and quantified their clustering during the night separating encoding and retrieval. Fast spindle band power fluctuated at a 0.02-Hz infraslow scale in young-middle aged and older adults. However, the proportion of clustered fast spindles decreased non-linearly with age (p < 0.001). This effect was not mediated by NREM sleep fragmentation. The clustering level of fast spindles modulated their characteristics (p < 0.001). Finally, the mean size of spindle clusters was positively associated with memory consolidation (p = 0.036) and negatively with NREM sleep micro-arousals density (p = 0.033). These results suggest that clusters of fast spindles may constitute stable sleep periods promoting off-line processes such as memory consolidation. We emphasize the relevance of considering spindle dynamics, obviously impaired during ageing, to understand the impact of age-related sleep changes on memory.
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- Pierre Champetier
- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, INSERM, U1237, PhIND "Physiopathology and Imaging of Neurological Disorders", Institut Blood and Brain @ Caen-Normandie , GIP Cyceron, 14000 Caen, France
- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Université , EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, NIMH, 14000 Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, INSERM, U1237, PhIND "Physiopathology and Imaging of Neurological Disorders", Institut Blood and Brain @ Caen-Normandie , GIP Cyceron, 14000 Caen, France
- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Université , EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, NIMH, 14000 Caen, France
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Centre , 6525 EN Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1105 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, INSERM, U1237, PhIND "Physiopathology and Imaging of Neurological Disorders", Institut Blood and Brain @ Caen-Normandie , GIP Cyceron, 14000 Caen, France
- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Université , EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, NIMH, 14000 Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, INSERM, U1237, PhIND "Physiopathology and Imaging of Neurological Disorders", Institut Blood and Brain @ Caen-Normandie , GIP Cyceron, 14000 Caen, France
- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Université , EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, NIMH, 14000 Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Université , EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, NIMH, 14000 Caen, France
- Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, CRFDP (EA 7475) , Rouen, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon 1 University , Lyon, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, INSERM, U1237, PhIND "Physiopathology and Imaging of Neurological Disorders", Institut Blood and Brain @ Caen-Normandie , GIP Cyceron, 14000 Caen, France
- Service d’Exploration et de traitement des troubles du sommeil, CHU Caen-Normandie , Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Université , EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, NIMH, 14000 Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, INSERM, U1237, PhIND "Physiopathology and Imaging of Neurological Disorders", Institut Blood and Brain @ Caen-Normandie , GIP Cyceron, 14000 Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, INSERM, U1237, PhIND "Physiopathology and Imaging of Neurological Disorders", Institut Blood and Brain @ Caen-Normandie , GIP Cyceron, 14000 Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, PSL Université , EPHE, INSERM, U1077, CHU de Caen, GIP Cyceron, NIMH, 14000 Caen, France
- Service de Neurologie, CHU Caen-Normandie , Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, INSERM, U1237, PhIND "Physiopathology and Imaging of Neurological Disorders", Institut Blood and Brain @ Caen-Normandie , GIP Cyceron, 14000 Caen, France
- Département de Recherche Clinique, CHU Caen-Normandie , Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, INSERM, U1237, PhIND "Physiopathology and Imaging of Neurological Disorders", Institut Blood and Brain @ Caen-Normandie , GIP Cyceron, 14000 Caen, France
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- Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, INSERM, U1237, PhIND "Physiopathology and Imaging of Neurological Disorders", Institut Blood and Brain @ Caen-Normandie , GIP Cyceron, 14000 Caen, France
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Bovy L, Weber FD, Tendolkar I, Fernández G, Czisch M, Steiger A, Zeising M, Dresler M. Non-REM sleep in major depressive disorder. Neuroimage Clin 2022; 36:103275. [PMID: 36451376 PMCID: PMC9723407 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Revised: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Abstract
Disturbed sleep is a key symptom in major depressive disorder (MDD). REM sleep alterations are well described in the current literature, but little is known about non-REM sleep alterations. Additionally, sleep disturbances relate to a variety of cognitive symptoms in MDD, but which features of non-REM sleep EEG contribute to this, remains unknown. We comprehensively analyzed non-REM sleep EEG features in two central channels in three independently collected datasets (N = 284 recordings of 216 participants). This exploratory and descriptive study included MDD patients with a broad age range, varying duration and severity of depression, unmedicated or medicated, age- and gender-matched to healthy controls. We explored changes in sleep architecture including sleep stages and cycles, spectral power, sleep spindles, slow waves (SW), and SW-spindle coupling. Next, we analyzed the association of these sleep features with acute measures of depression severity and overnight consolidation of procedural memory. Overall, no major systematic alterations in non-REM sleep architecture were found in patients compared to controls. For the microstructure of non-REM sleep, we observed a higher spindle amplitude in unmedicated patients compared to controls, and after the start of antidepressant medication longer SWs with lower amplitude and a more dispersed SW-spindle coupling. In addition, long-term, but not short-term medication seemed to lower spindle density. Overnight procedural memory consolidation was impaired in medicated patients and associated with lower sleep spindle density. Our results suggest that alterations of non-REM sleep EEG in MDD might be more subtle than previously reported. We discuss these findings in the context of antidepressant medication intake and age.
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- Leonore Bovy
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center,Corresponding author.
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Klinikum Ingolstadt, Centre of Mental Health, Ingolstadt, Germany
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center
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Bastian L, Samanta A, Ribeiro de Paula D, Weber FD, Schoenfeld R, Dresler M, Genzel L. Spindle-slow oscillation coupling correlates with memory performance and connectivity changes in a hippocampal network after sleep. Hum Brain Mapp 2022; 43:3923-3943. [PMID: 35488512 PMCID: PMC9374888 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2021] [Revised: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
After experiences are encoded, post‐encoding reactivations during sleep have been proposed to mediate long‐term memory consolidation. Spindle–slow oscillation coupling during NREM sleep is a candidate mechanism through which a hippocampal‐cortical dialogue may strengthen a newly formed memory engram. Here, we investigated the role of fast spindle‐ and slow spindle–slow oscillation coupling in the consolidation of spatial memory in humans with a virtual watermaze task involving allocentric and egocentric learning strategies. Furthermore, we analyzed how resting‐state functional connectivity evolved across learning, consolidation, and retrieval of this task using a data‐driven approach. Our results show task‐related connectivity changes in the executive control network, the default mode network, and the hippocampal network at post‐task rest. The hippocampal network could further be divided into two subnetworks of which only one showed modulation by sleep. Decreased functional connectivity in this subnetwork was associated with higher spindle–slow oscillation coupling power, which was also related to better memory performance at test. Overall, this study contributes to a more holistic understanding of the functional resting‐state networks and the mechanisms during sleep associated to spatial memory consolidation.
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- Lisa Bastian
- Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Tahmasian M, Aleman A, Andreassen OA, Arab Z, Baillet M, Benedetti F, Bresser T, Bright J, Chee MW, Chylinski D, Cheng W, Deantoni M, Dresler M, Eickhoff SB, Eickhoff CR, Elvsåshagen T, Feng J, Foster-Dingley JC, Ganjgahi H, Grabe HJ, Groenewold NA, Ho TC, Hong SB, Houenou J, Irungu B, Jahanshad N, Khazaie H, Kim H, Koshmanova E, Kocevska D, Kochunov P, Lakbila-Kamal O, Leerssen J, Li M, Luik AI, Muto V, Narbutas J, Nilsonne G, O’Callaghan VS, Olsen A, Osorio RS, Poletti S, Poudel G, Reesen JE, Reneman L, Reyt M, Riemann D, Rosenzweig I, Rostampour M, Saberi A, Schiel J, Schmidt C, Schrantee A, Sciberras E, Silk TJ, Sim K, Smevik H, Soares JC, Spiegelhalder K, Stein DJ, Talwar P, Tamm S, Teresi GI, Valk SL, Van Someren E, Vandewalle G, Van Egroo M, Völzke H, Walter M, Wassing R, Weber FD, Weihs A, Westlye LT, Wright MJ, Wu MJ, Zak N, Zarei M. ENIGMA-Sleep: Challenges, opportunities, and the road map. J Sleep Res 2021; 30:e13347. [PMID: 33913199 PMCID: PMC8803276 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.13347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Revised: 03/14/2021] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
Neuroimaging and genetics studies have advanced our understanding of the neurobiology of sleep and its disorders. However, individual studies usually have limitations to identifying consistent and reproducible effects, including modest sample sizes, heterogeneous clinical characteristics and varied methodologies. These issues call for a large-scale multi-centre effort in sleep research, in order to increase the number of samples, and harmonize the methods of data collection, preprocessing and analysis using pre-registered well-established protocols. The Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) consortium provides a powerful collaborative framework for combining datasets across individual sites. Recently, we have launched the ENIGMA-Sleep working group with the collaboration of several institutes from 15 countries to perform large-scale worldwide neuroimaging and genetics studies for better understanding the neurobiology of impaired sleep quality in population-based healthy individuals, the neural consequences of sleep deprivation, pathophysiology of sleep disorders, as well as neural correlates of sleep disturbances across various neuropsychiatric disorders. In this introductory review, we describe the details of our currently available datasets and our ongoing projects in the ENIGMA-Sleep group, and discuss both the potential challenges and opportunities of a collaborative initiative in sleep medicine.
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- Masoud Tahmasian
- Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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- University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Inst of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Psychiatry & Clinical Psychobiology, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
- Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Sleep and Cognition, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty,, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Structural and functional organisation of the brain (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Site Rostock/Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- SA MRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry & Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry and Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, SBRI (Samsung Biomedical Research Institute), Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Univ Paris Saclay, NeuroSpin neuroimaging platform, Psychiatry Team, UNIACT Lab, CEA Saclay, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
- DMU IMPACT de Psychiatrie et d'Addictologie, APHP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Mondor, Créteil, France
- Univ Paris Est Créteil, INSERM U 955, IMRB Team 15 « Translational Neuropsychiatry », Foundation FondaMental, Créteil, France
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Sleep Disorders Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Psychology, Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Healthy Brain Aging and Sleep Center, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
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- Psychiatry & Clinical Psychobiology, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano, Italy
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- Mary Mackillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
- Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London, London, UK
- Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Sleep Disorders Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
- Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia
- School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Vic., Australia
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- Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia
- School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Vic., Australia
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- Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok, Singapore
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- Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- SA MRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry & Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Psychology, Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty,, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Otto Hahn Group Cognitive Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Vrije Universiteit, Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Institute for Community Medicine, Department SHIP/Clinical Epidemiological Research, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Greifswald, Germany
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- Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Sleep and Circadian Research, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Inst of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- K.G Jebsen Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld, Australia
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Inst of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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Konkoly KR, Appel K, Chabani E, Mangiaruga A, Gott J, Mallett R, Caughran B, Witkowski S, Whitmore NW, Mazurek CY, Berent JB, Weber FD, Türker B, Leu-Semenescu S, Maranci JB, Pipa G, Arnulf I, Oudiette D, Dresler M, Paller KA. Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep. Curr Biol 2021; 31:1417-1427.e6. [PMID: 33607035 PMCID: PMC8162929 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2020] [Revised: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 01/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Dreams take us to a different reality, a hallucinatory world that feels as real as any waking experience. These often-bizarre episodes are emblematic of human sleep but have yet to be adequately explained. Retrospective dream reports are subject to distortion and forgetting, presenting a fundamental challenge for neuroscientific studies of dreaming. Here we show that individuals who are asleep and in the midst of a lucid dream (aware of the fact that they are currently dreaming) can perceive questions from an experimenter and provide answers using electrophysiological signals. We implemented our procedures for two-way communication during polysomnographically verified rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep in 36 individuals. Some had minimal prior experience with lucid dreaming, others were frequent lucid dreamers, and one was a patient with narcolepsy who had frequent lucid dreams. During REM sleep, these individuals exhibited various capabilities, including performing veridical perceptual analysis of novel information, maintaining information in working memory, computing simple answers, and expressing volitional replies. Their responses included distinctive eye movements and selective facial muscle contractions, constituting correctly answered questions on 29 occasions across 6 of the individuals tested. These repeated observations of interactive dreaming, documented by four independent laboratory groups, demonstrate that phenomenological and cognitive characteristics of dreaming can be interrogated in real time. This relatively unexplored communication channel can enable a variety of practical applications and a new strategy for the empirical exploration of dreams. Scientific investigations of dreaming have been hampered by the delay between a dream and when people report on their dream, and by a change in state from sleep to wake. To overcome this problem, Konkoly et al. show that individuals in REM sleep can perceive and answer an experimenter’s questions, allowing for real-time communication about a dream.
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- Karen R Konkoly
- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany; Institute of Sleep and Dream Technologies, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Sorbonne Université, Inserm, CNRS, Paris, France
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Sorbonne Université, Inserm, CNRS, Paris, France
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- Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Sorbonne Université, Inserm, CNRS, Paris, France; AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Sleep Disorders Department, Paris, France
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- Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Sorbonne Université, Inserm, CNRS, Paris, France; AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Sleep Disorders Department, Paris, France
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- Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany
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- Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Sorbonne Université, Inserm, CNRS, Paris, France; AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Sleep Disorders Department, Paris, France
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- Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Sorbonne Université, Inserm, CNRS, Paris, France
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
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Gott J, Bovy L, Peters E, Tzioridou S, Meo S, Demirel Ç, Esfahani MJ, Oliveira PR, Houweling T, Orticoni A, Rademaker A, Booltink D, Varatheeswaran R, van Hooijdonk C, Chaabou M, Mangiaruga A, van den Berge E, Weber FD, Ritter S, Dresler M. Virtual reality training of lucid dreaming. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2021; 376:20190697. [PMID: 33308070 PMCID: PMC7741087 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Metacognitive reflections on one's current state of mind are largely absent during dreaming. Lucid dreaming as the exception to this rule is a rare phenomenon; however, its occurrence can be facilitated through cognitive training. A central idea of respective training strategies is to regularly question one's phenomenal experience: is the currently experienced world real, or just a dream? Here, we tested if such lucid dreaming training can be enhanced with dream-like virtual reality (VR): over the course of four weeks, volunteers underwent lucid dreaming training in VR scenarios comprising dream-like elements, classical lucid dreaming training or no training. We found that VR-assisted training led to significantly stronger increases in lucid dreaming compared to the no-training condition. Eye signal-verified lucid dreams during polysomnography supported behavioural results. We discuss the potential mechanisms underlying these findings, in particular the role of synthetic dream-like experiences, incorporation of VR content in dream imagery serving as memory cues, and extended dissociative effects of VR session on subsequent experiences that might amplify lucid dreaming training during wakefulness. This article is part of the theme issue 'Offline perception: voluntary and spontaneous perceptual experiences without matching external stimulation'.
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- Jarrod Gott
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Rivierduinen Institute for Mental Healthcare, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Rivierduinen Institute for Mental Healthcare, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Weber FD, Supp GG, Klinzing JG, Mölle M, Engel AK, Born J. Coupling of gamma band activity to sleep spindle oscillations - a combined EEG/MEG study. Neuroimage 2020; 224:117452. [PMID: 33059050 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2020] [Revised: 10/01/2020] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Sleep spindles are crucial to memory consolidation. Cortical gamma oscillations (30-100 Hz) are considered to reflect processing of memory in local cortical networks. The temporal and regulatory relationship between spindles and gamma activity might therefore provide clues into how sleep strengthens cortical memory representations. Here, combining EEG with MEG recordings during sleep in healthy humans (n = 12), we investigated the temporal relationships of cortical gamma band activity, always measured by MEG, during fast (12-16 Hz) and slow (8-12 Hz) sleep spindles detected in the EEG or MEG. Time-frequency distributions did not show a consistent coupling of gamma to the spindle oscillation, although activity in the low gamma (30-40 Hz) and neighboring beta range (<30 Hz) was generally increased during spindles. However, more fine-grained analyses of cross-frequency interactions revealed that both low and high gamma power (30-100 Hz) was coupled to the phase of slow and fast EEG spindles, importantly, with this coupling at a fixed phase only for the oscillations within an individual spindle, but with variable phase across spindles. We did not observe any coupling of gamma activity for spindles detected solely in the MEG and not in parallel EEG recordings, raising the possibility that these are more local spindles of different quality. Similar to fast spindle activity, low gamma band power followed a ~0.025 Hz infraslow rhythm during sleep whose frequency, however, was significantly faster than that of spindle activity. Our findings suggest a general function of fast and slow spindles that by spanning larger cortical networks might serve to synchronize gamma band activity occurring in more local but distributed networks. Thereby, spindles might help linking local memory processing between distributed networks.
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- Frederik D Weber
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Otfried-Müller-Str. 25, Germany.
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Martinistraße 52, Building N43, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Otfried-Müller-Str. 25, Germany
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- Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lübeck, 23538 Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Germany
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Martinistraße 52, Building N43, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Otfried-Müller-Str. 25, Germany; Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Otfried-Müller-Str. 25, Germany.
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Spanò G, Weber FD, Pizzamiglio G, McCormick C, Miller TD, Rosenthal CR, Edgin JO, Maguire EA. Sleeping with Hippocampal Damage. Curr Biol 2020; 30:523-529.e3. [PMID: 31956024 PMCID: PMC6997880 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2019] [Revised: 10/16/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The hippocampus plays a critical role in sleep-related memory processes [1-3], but it is unclear which specific sleep features are dependent upon this brain structure. The examination of sleep physiology in patients with focal bilateral hippocampal damage and amnesia could supply important evidence regarding these links. However, there is a dearth of such studies, despite these patients providing compelling insights into awake cognition [4, 5]. Here, we sought to identify the contribution of the hippocampus to the sleep phenotype by characterizing sleep via comprehensive qualitative and quantitative analyses in memory-impaired patients with selective bilateral hippocampal damage and matched control participants using in-home polysomnography on 4 nights. We found that, compared to control participants, patients had significantly reduced slow-wave sleep-likely due to decreased density of slow waves-as well as slow-wave activity. In contrast, slow and fast spindles were indistinguishable from those of control participants. Moreover, patients expressed slow oscillations (SOs), and SO-fast spindle coupling was observed. However, on closer scrutiny, we noted that the timing of spindles within the SO cycle was delayed in the patients. The shift of patients' spindles into the later phase of the up-state within the SO cycle may indicate a mismatch in timing across the SO-spindle-ripple events that are associated with memory consolidation [6, 7]. The substantial effect of selective bilateral hippocampal damage on large-scale oscillatory activity in the cortex suggests that, as with awake cognition, the hippocampus plays a significant role in sleep physiology, which may, in turn, be necessary for efficacious episodic memory.
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- Goffredina Spanò
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen 6525 EN, the Netherlands
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases and Geriatric Psychiatry, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn 53127, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Royal Free Hospital, London NW3 2QG, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK.
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Weber FD. Sleep: Eye-Opener Highlights Sleep's Organization. Curr Biol 2018; 28:R217-R220. [PMID: 29510110 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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What can eyes tell us about what happens during sleep? Their movements split sleep into two distinct states - rapid-eye-movement (REM) or non-REM sleep. A new study now reveals that periodic pupil constrictions are linked to non-REM sleep plunging into deeper offline states and back about every minute.
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- Frederik D Weber
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, 6525 EZ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.
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Wang JY, Weber FD, Zinke K, Noack H, Born J. Effects of Sleep on Word Pair Memory in Children - Separating Item and Source Memory Aspects. Front Psychol 2017; 8:1533. [PMID: 28943858 PMCID: PMC5594220 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2017] [Accepted: 08/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Word paired-associate learning is a well-established task to demonstrate sleep-dependent memory consolidation in adults as well as children. Sleep has also been proposed to benefit episodic features of memory, i.e., a memory for an event (item) bound into the spatiotemporal context it has been experienced in (source). We aimed to explore if sleep enhances word pair memory in children by strengthening the episodic features of the memory, in particular. Sixty-one children (8–12 years) studied two lists of word pairs with 1 h in between. Retrieval testing comprised cued recall of the target word of each word pair (item memory) and recalling in which list the word pair had appeared in (source memory). Retrieval was tested either after 1 h (short retention interval) or after 11 h, with this long retention interval covering either nocturnal sleep or daytime wakefulness. Compared with the wake interval, sleep enhanced separate recall of both word pairs and the lists per se, while recall of the combination of the word pair and the list it had appeared in remained unaffected by sleep. An additional comparison with adult controls (n = 37) suggested that item-source bound memory (combined recall of word pair and list) is generally diminished in children. Our results argue against the view that the sleep-induced enhancement in paired-associate learning in children is a consequence of sleep specifically enhancing the episodic features of the memory representation. On the contrary, sleep in children might strengthen item and source representations in isolation, while leaving the episodic memory representations (item-source binding) unaffected.
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- Jing-Yi Wang
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of TübingenTübingen, Germany.,State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal UniversityBeijing, China.,Graduate School of Neural and Behavioral Sciences, University of TübingenTübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of TübingenTübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of TübingenTübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of TübingenTübingen, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of TübingenTübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of TübingenTübingen, Germany.,Werner Reichardt Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of TübingenTübingen, Germany
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Wang JY, Weber FD, Zinke K, Inostroza M, Born J. More Effective Consolidation of Episodic Long-Term Memory in Children Than Adults-Unrelated to Sleep. Child Dev 2017; 89:1720-1734. [PMID: 28594100 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Abilities to encode and remember events in their spatiotemporal context (episodic memory) rely on brain regions that mature late during childhood and are supported by sleep. We compared the temporal dynamics of episodic memory formation and the role of sleep in this process between 62 children (8-12 years) and 57 adults (18-37 years). Subjects recalled "what-where-when" memories after a short 1-hr retention interval or after a long 10.5-hr interval containing either nocturnal sleep or daytime wakefulness. Although children showed diminished recall of episodes after 1 hr, possibly resulting from inferior encoding, unlike adults, they showed no further decrease in recall after 10.5 hr. In both age groups, episodic memory benefitted from sleep. However, children's more effective offline retention was unrelated to sleep.
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Lecci S, Fernandez LMJ, Weber FD, Cardis R, Chatton JY, Born J, Lüthi A. Coordinated infraslow neural and cardiac oscillations mark fragility and offline periods in mammalian sleep. Sci Adv 2017; 3:e1602026. [PMID: 28246641 PMCID: PMC5298853 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2016] [Accepted: 12/19/2016] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Rodents sleep in bouts lasting minutes; humans sleep for hours. What are the universal needs served by sleep given such variability? In sleeping mice and humans, through monitoring neural and cardiac activity (combined with assessment of arousability and overnight memory consolidation, respectively), we find a previously unrecognized hallmark of sleep that balances two fundamental yet opposing needs: to maintain sensory reactivity to the environment while promoting recovery and memory consolidation. Coordinated 0.02-Hz oscillations of the sleep spindle band, hippocampal ripple activity, and heart rate sequentially divide non-rapid eye movement (non-REM) sleep into offline phases and phases of high susceptibility to external stimulation. A noise stimulus chosen such that sleeping mice woke up or slept through at comparable rates revealed that offline periods correspond to raising, whereas fragility periods correspond to declining portions of the 0.02-Hz oscillation in spindle activity. Oscillations were present throughout non-REM sleep in mice, yet confined to light non-REM sleep (stage 2) in humans. In both species, the 0.02-Hz oscillation predominated over posterior cortex. The strength of the 0.02-Hz oscillation predicted superior memory recall after sleep in a declarative memory task in humans. These oscillations point to a conserved function of mammalian non-REM sleep that cycles between environmental alertness and internal memory processing in 20- to 25-s intervals. Perturbed 0.02-Hz oscillations may cause memory impairment and ill-timed arousals in sleep disorders.
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- Sandro Lecci
- Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Corresponding author.
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Sprenger A, Weber FD, Machner B, Talamo S, Scheffelmeier S, Bethke J, Helmchen C, Gais S, Kimmig H, Born J. Deprivation and Recovery of Sleep in Succession Enhances Reflexive Motor Behavior. Cereb Cortex 2015; 25:4610-8. [PMID: 26048955 PMCID: PMC4816803 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhv115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Sleep deprivation impairs inhibitory control over reflexive behavior, and this impairment is commonly assumed to dissipate after recovery sleep. Contrary to this belief, here we show that fast reflexive behaviors, when practiced during sleep deprivation, is consolidated across recovery sleep and, thereby, becomes preserved. As a model for the study of sleep effects on prefrontal cortex-mediated inhibitory control in humans, we examined reflexive saccadic eye movements (express saccades), as well as speeded 2-choice finger motor responses. Different groups of subjects were trained on a standard prosaccade gap paradigm before periods of nocturnal sleep and sleep deprivation. Saccade performance was retested in the next morning and again 24 h later. The rate of express saccades was not affected by sleep after training, but slightly increased after sleep deprivation. Surprisingly, this increase augmented even further after recovery sleep and was still present 4 weeks later. Additional experiments revealed that the short testing after sleep deprivation was sufficient to increase express saccades across recovery sleep. An increase in speeded responses across recovery sleep was likewise found for finger motor responses. Our findings indicate that recovery sleep can consolidate motor disinhibition for behaviors practiced during prior sleep deprivation, thereby persistently enhancing response automatization.
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- Andreas Sprenger
- Department of Neurology, University Luebeck, D-23538 Luebeck, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology and Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tuebingen, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Luebeck, D-23538 Luebeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Luebeck, D-23538 Luebeck, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Luebeck, D-23538 Luebeck, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology and Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tuebingen, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Luebeck, D-23538 Luebeck, Germany Schwarzwald-Baar Klinikum, D-78052 Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany Department of Neurology, University Freiburg, D-79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology and Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tuebingen, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany
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Research in rats using preferences during exploration as a measure of memory has indicated that sleep is important for the consolidation of episodic-like memory, i.e., memory for an event bound into specific spatio-temporal context. How these findings relate to human episodic memory is unclear. We used spontaneous preferences during visual exploration and verbal recall as, respectively, implicit and explicit measures of memory, to study effects of sleep on episodic memory consolidation in humans. During encoding before 10-h retention intervals that covered nighttime sleep or daytime wakefulness, two groups of young adults were presented with two episodes that were 1-h apart. Each episode entailed a spatial configuration of four different faces in a 3 × 3 grid of locations. After the retention interval, implicit spatio-temporal recall performance was assessed by eye-tracking visual exploration of another configuration of four faces of which two were from the first and second episode, respectively; of the two faces one was presented at the same location as during encoding and the other at another location. Afterward explicit verbal recall was assessed. Measures of implicit and explicit episodic memory retention were positively correlated (r = 0.57, P < 0.01), and were both better after nighttime sleep than daytime wakefulness (P < 0.05). In the sleep group, implicit episodic memory recall was associated with increased fast spindles during nonrapid eye movement (NonREM) sleep (r = 0.62, P < 0.05). Together with concordant observations in rats our results indicate that consolidation of genuinely episodic memory benefits from sleep.
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- Frederik D Weber
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Young JA, Martin CJ, Asz M, Weber FD. A microperfusion investigation of bicarbonate secretion by the rat submaxillary gland. The action of a parasumpathomimetic drug on electrolyte transport. Pflugers Arch 1970; 319:185-99. [PMID: 5529092 DOI: 10.1007/bf00586449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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