ReviewCurrent opinion in physiology2020
Linking the nature and functions of sleep: insights from multimodal imaging of the sleeping brain.
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- Brain network dynamics in the wake-sleep transition reorganize according to task engagement.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Sleep neuroimaging: Review and future directions.Journal of sleep research · 2025Review
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- Effects of green-wall layouts on psychological and physiological responses in office environments: a virtual-environment study.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Sleep on it: exploring the psychology of sleep amidst contemporary challenges.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Kir channel in the nucleus tractus solitarius integrates the chemosensory system with REM sleep executive machinery for homeostatic balance.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Content-state dimensions characterize different types of neuronal markers of consciousness.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2024Article
- Auditory inputs modulate intrinsic neuronal timescales during sleep.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Cross-Scale Dynamicity of Entropy and Connectivity in the Sleeping Brain.Brain connectivity · 2022Article
- Decreasing Alertness Modulates Perceptual Decision-Making.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Perturbations in dynamical models of whole-brain activity dissociate between the level and stability of consciousness.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Sleep and wakefulness are traditionally considered as two mutually exclusive states with contrasting behavioural manifestations and complementary neurobiological functions. However, the discoveries of local sleep in global wakefulness and local wakefulness in global sleep have challenged this classical view and raised questions about the nature and functions of sleep. Here, we review the contributions from recent multimodal imaging studies of human sleep towards understanding the relationship between the nature and functions of sleep. Through simultaneous tracking of brain state and mapping of brain activity, these studies revealed that the sleeping brain can carry out covert cognitive processing that was thought to be wake-specific (wake-like function in the sleeping brain). Conversely, the awake brain can perform housekeeping functions through local sleep of neural populations (sleep-like function in the awake brain). We discuss how the blurred boundary between sleep and wakefulness highlights the need to radically rethink the definition of brain states, and how the recently discovered fMRI signatures of global and local sleep can help to address these outstanding questions.
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