Out now in @commsbio.nature.com! We studied brain-heart interactions during mind wandering and mind blanking. Mind blanking is associated with a greater heart/brain decoupling, complicating the idea of an attentional switch between external & internal environments! 🧠🔄🫀🧪

Sleep supports brain health partly by regulating fluid dynamics to clear waste. @ulvlarsen.bsky.social &co probe the relation between #sleep & fluid movement in the human #brain, finding that #SleepPressure & intensity have distinct effects on brain pulsations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3XQWCL6

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Fan Nils Yang, Jeff H. Duyn, et al: Increased intra-thalamic and thalamo-cortical functional connections during human REM sleep: Insights from a two-night EEG-fMRI study doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Don’t miss the final #eSleepEurope2025 track: Basic Animal on 11 December! 🎉Join us! Register now: https://ow.ly/WVZB50Xvc5M#eSleepEurope2025 #eSleepEurope2025 #ESRS #basicanimal

​Our new paper on auditory processing in NREM sleep is online! We study how iERP and HFA responses in the temporal lobe are modulated by slow waves of sleep: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Congratulations to Sigurd Alnes for his brilliant work and to the entire team!

👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂 now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol... Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.

Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation dynamic www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New review from the Lab: Bontempi et al., "The Effects of RBD Medications on Dream Content: A Critical Review of Evidence" 💊 "Available evidence offers only limited support for clonazepam, melatonin, and pramipexole in reducing disturbing dream content" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There is a link between dreaming and memory consolidation. In this experiment, researchers put this theory to the test by recording dreams after #REM and #NREM sleep. academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...

Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it

Colombo et al., Plos Biology, "Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🚨Preprint alert 🚨. Our work “Distinct cortical profiles underlie the common reportability of thought-free experiences” is available at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🧵A thread ...

Kort Driessen, Fabio Squarcio, Giulio Tononi, Chiara Cirelli "Induction of cortical ON/OFF periods in awake mice fulfills sleep functions" doi.org/10.1101/2025...

New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review" doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

In our keynote lecture, we are honoured to welcome Prof. Dr. Marcello Massimini, who is addressing “Slow waves during wakefulness and the network consequences of brain injury.” #eSleepEurope2025

New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet ** Deadline: 2nd December 1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6 2. TUS and TMR in humans: tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj Happy to chat to interested applicants.

why I’m happy to admit to my research failures, and you should too https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/173671/ The open-science movement has promoted the sharing of scientific protocols, statistical-analysis programs and data files. These efforts have…

New paper! 🧠💤 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Led by Pauline Dodet - @dreamteamicm.bsky.social We show that #sleep stage mixing predicts poor prognosis in #Parkinson. Stage mixing = intrusions of wake-like activity during sleep, and vice versa. Estimated with hypnodensities extracted from PSG.

The @dreamteamicm.bsky.social has launched an online survey about the things you experience when you fall asleep! Everyone is different, so we need you to tell us! It will take only 20 minutes, but it will mean a lot to dream researchers like us! redcap.link/DriftingMinds Please, share! 🧠💤

🚨 New article in #NCONSC Daily dynamics of the temporal orientations of mind wandering: chronotype matters! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... #consciousness #sleep 🧠🧪💤

📣 November's Abstraction seminar is all set too! 🗓️ 19 November, 11:30 - 12.30 (CEST) 📍 Bologna (in presenza) or 💻 Microsoft Teams (link: shorturl.at/xW7mF ) 🎆 Join us, details in the figure! 👉 Save the date & spread the word! ✨ @abstractionerc.bsky.social

It's that time of the year! Come join us in sunny San Sebastian for three days of neuroscience, collaboration & (ofc) a lot of fun! :)

Cannabis and sleep architecture: A systematic review and meta-analysis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A follow-up to this SRS podcast: sleepresearchsocietypodcast.podbean.com/e/srs-podcas...

🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨 We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes: ⚡ Neuropixels recordings ⚡ Opto/chemo ⚡ Behavior ⚡ Neural network modeling If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏 www.fens.org/careers/job-...

🚀 Excited to share our lab’s contributions at #ICON2025 in Porto! Catch talks & posters from @aprilzhao.bsky.social @asanchezcorzo.bsky.social @fabian31415.bsky.social @estebanbt.bsky.social

🧠 The official website of the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, IMT School, Lucca, Italy) is now live: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it 👉 Check out the confirmed speakers + our program overview. Detailed schedule and registration coming soon!

"Sleep, like aging, may be an inescapable consequence of aerobic metabolism." Really enjoyed this thought-provoking paper 🧠💤🪰 - congrats to @rafsarnataro.bsky.social and team on this impressive work! No wonder the Krebs cycle always put me to sleep 😅 #neuroskyence

🚨 New preprint 🚨 "Immersive NREM dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure." We analyzed 1,024 awakenings collected across 196 nights with high-density EEG (256 ch.) to explore the relationship between dreaming and subjective sleep depth. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨(1/6) Excited to share our work, out now in Science Advances We show that a rapid norepinephrine surge along a brainstem pathway (LC→PRN) is a key driver of sound-evoked awakenings www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Aperiodic EEG Activity Provides a Linear, Bidirectional, and Spatially Uniform Marker of Subjective and Objective Vigilance in Humans, Both Within and Across States www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Slow waves during sleep are fundamental for neural homeostasis and are impaired in neurodegenerative diseases. But what about sleep-like slow waves during wakefulness? Are these slow waves altered in Parkinson's disease? Are these slow waves uncovering psychosis?

If you are at #WorldSleep25 and interested in Dreaming, come by my Poster 75 at 5.30 today! Also happy to chat about any other of my interests, such as infant sleep, gut microbiota, and so on, at the poster or over a tea! #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social

🧠🧪 New paper in #NCONSC 🧠🧪 What if people who seem unconscious (e.g., Disorders of Consciousness, DoC) could still dream or experience mind wandering? We explore this possibility in a new review: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... With Jasmine Walter and Jennifer Windt! #consciousness #dreaming

Have you ever felt like your surroundings look unreal? Our new Registered Report (accepted in Neuroscience of Consciousness) studied derealisation and shows that altered visual experiences don’t change how we assess vividness. To find our more: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

🧠 New preprint! 🧠 As part of a forthcoming book on consciousness, we wrote a chapter on: Spontaneous thoughts and experiences across wakefulness and sleep osf.io/preprints/ps... with @parboulakis.bsky.social @ademertzi.bsky.social and @jdsitt.bsky.social A brief 🧵!

📜 ¡New preprint! 📜 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧪🧠 With amazing alumni from @mesec-community.bsky.social and including: @zefanzheng.bsky.social @robertchisciure.bsky.social @jaanaru.bsky.social @bechir-jarraya.bsky.social

🔔New preprint out! We reviewed how RBD medications affect dream content. Take home message: the need for standardization and methodological rigor in future studies. “The effects of RBD Medications on Dream Content: A Critical Review of Evidence” is now available here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Fresh results now in bioRxiv! 🎉 We know about the function of NREM sleep for overnight memory consolidation. But what about REM sleep? We found that in aging, slow delta waves can intrude phasic REM periods, and this, is associated with worse overnight consolidation 🧠 (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Martyna Rakowska, Penelope A. Lewis, et al: Distributed and gradual microstructure changes are associated with the emergence of behavioural benefit from memory reactivation doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Our newest episode is live now - Exploring Closed-loop Auditory Stimulation (CLAS) We talk with Dr Hongi Ngo, the developer of CLAS and its potential implications in memory manipulation, immune response and more! Check out the episode here: www.buzzsprout.com/787211/episo...

Enhancement of Sleep Slow Wave Activity using Transcranial Electrical Stimulation with Temporal Interference www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Your Emotions, My Brain: Generalizable Neural Signatures of Emotional Memory Reactivation During Sleep https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.11.669349v1

Interested in how emotions surface in dreams across the night? In this new paper, Jessica Palmieri, @valentinaelce.bsky.social and I report about the “Nightly dynamics of emotional content in dreams.” doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Dream start for database that aims to improve our understanding of conscious experience in sleep Free link to the paper in Nature Communication is rdcu.be/eAwni !

No one ever steps in the same movie twice. Anticipatory gaze 👁️ indicate episodic memory seconds before an event occurs. 🧠🐾 Very robust effects across both natural and crafted movies, and of course, after sleep! 😴. Out today in Communication Psychology: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Check it out!

🧠🧪💤 New preprint! Sleep-like Slow Waves During Wakefulness Mediate Attention and Vigilance Difficulties in Adult ADHD We show that intrusions of sleep-like activity during wake help explain attention lapses in ADHD. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #ADHD #Sleep #Neuro

Save the date!! 🗓️ The 2nd edition of the Summer School on the Neuroscience of Dreaming 💤 will take place 4–8 May 2026 in Lucca, Italy, at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. 📍 The official website will be released soon: stay tuned for updates!