[HTML][HTML] Sleep spindles: mechanisms and functions

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

Sleep spindles: an overview

L De Gennaro, M Ferrara - Sleep medicine reviews, 2003 - Elsevier
Sleep spindles are a distinctive EEG phasic feature of NREM sleep and are prevalent during
stage 2 as compared to slow wave sleep. While the neurophysiological mechanisms of …

Sleep spindles in humans: insights from intracranial EEG and unit recordings

T Andrillon, Y Nir, RJ Staba, F Ferrarelli… - Journal of …, 2011 - jneurosci.org
Sleep spindles are an electroencephalographic (EEG) hallmark of non-rapid eye movement
(NREM) sleep and are believed to mediate many sleep-related functions, from memory …

The visual scoring of sleep in adults

MH Silber, S Ancoli-Israel, MH Bonnet… - Journal of clinical …, 2007 - jcsm.aasm.org
1.0 BACKGROUND In the more than a third of a century since the Rechtschaffen and Kales
manual on sleep stage scoring was published, much has changed in sleep science and …

Signal processing techniques applied to human sleep EEG signals—A review

S Motamedi-Fakhr, M Moshrefi-Torbati, M Hill… - … Signal Processing and …, 2014 - Elsevier
A bewildering variety of methods for analysing sleep EEG signals can be found in the
literature. This article provides an overview of these methods and offers guidelines for …

Concurrent impairments in sleep and memory in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

CE Westerberg, BA Mander, SM Florczak… - Journal of the …, 2012 - cambridge.org
Whereas patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) experience difficulties forming and
retrieving memories, their memory impairments may also partially reflect an unrecognized …

Hemodynamic cerebral correlates of sleep spindles during human non-rapid eye movement sleep

M Schabus, TT Dang-Vu, G Albouy, E Balteau… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - pnas.org
In humans, some evidence suggests that there are two different types of spindles during
sleep, which differ by their scalp topography and possibly some aspects of their regulation …

Electroencephalogram spindle activity during dexmedetomidine sedation and physiological sleep

E Huupponen, A Maksimow… - Acta …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Dexmedetomidine, a selective α2‐adrenoceptor agonist, induces a unique,
sleep‐like state of sedation. The objective of the present work was to study human …

Advances in quantitative electroencephalogram analysis methods

NV Thakor, S Tong - Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng., 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Quantitative electroencephalogram (qEEG) plays a significant role in EEG-based
clinical diagnosis and studies of brain function. In past decades, various qEEG methods …

Memory improvement via slow-oscillatory stimulation during sleep in older adults

CE Westerberg, SM Florczak, S Weintraub… - Neurobiology of …, 2015 - Elsevier
We examined the intriguing but controversial idea that disrupted sleep-dependent
consolidation contributes to age-related memory decline. Slow-wave activity during sleep …