How does a lack of sleep affect our brains? In contrast to the benefits of sleep, frameworks
exploring the impact of sleep loss are relatively lacking. Importantly, the effects of sleep …

Depression is a common mental disorder characterized by heterogeneous cognitive and
behavioral symptoms. The emerging research paradigm of functional connectomics has …

Are you feeling emotionally fragile, moody, unpredictable, even ungenerous to those around
you? Here, we review how and why these phenomena can occur as a result of insufficient …

The alterations of functional connectivity brain networks in major depressive disorder (MDD)
have been subject of a large number of studies. Using different methodologies and focusing …

Humans spend much of their time engaged in stimulus-independent thoughts, colloquially
known as “daydreaming” or “mind-wandering.” A fundamental question concerns how …

Significant inter-individual differences in vigilance decline following sleep deprivation exist.
We characterized functional connectivity in 68 healthy young adult participants in rested …

Sleep loss robustly disrupts mood and emotion regulation in healthy individuals but can
have a transient antidepressant effect in a subset of patients with depression. The neural …

Sleep is a universal phenomenon necessary for maintaining homeostasis and function
across a range of organs. Lack of sleep has severe health-related consequences affecting …

Sleep deprivation significantly impairs a range of cognitive and brain function, particularly
episodic memory and the underlying hippocampal function. However, it remains …

Importance Although several strategies using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
have been investigated to treat major depressive disorder (MDD), the efficacy of this …