ArticleCurrent biology : CB2021
Twitches emerge postnatally during quiet sleep in human infants and are synchronized with sleep spindles.
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- Do twitching and twitch-spindle coupling differ between N2 and N3 sleep in 6-month-olds?bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Infant sleep EEG features at 4 months as biomarkers of neurodevelopment at 18 months.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Co-developing sleep-wake and sensory foundations for cognition in the human fetus and newborn.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Review
- REM refines and rescues memory representations: a new theory.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Review
- The effect of group size on sleep in a neotropical bat, Artibeus jamaicensis.Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology · 2024Article
- The importance of sleep for the developing brain.Current sleep medicine reports · 2024Article
- Sleep as a driver of pre- and postnatal brain development.Pediatric research · 2024Review
- A Thalamocortical Perspective on Sleep Spindle Alterations in Neurodevelopmental Disorders.Current sleep medicine reports · 2024Review
- Protracted development of motor cortex constrains rich interpretations of infant cognition.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
In humans and other mammals, the stillness of sleep is punctuated by bursts of rapid eye movements (REMs) and myoclonic twitches of the limbs.
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