We now have a website for the DreamTeam! 🤩🥳 Check out the team members, publications, news... sites.google.com/view/dreamte...

DreamTeam ICM

DreamTeam ICM: Sleep, dreams, and cognition We are a research team based at the Paris Brain Institute (Institut du Cerveau) that aims to discover why we sleep and dream and understand the mechanisms o...

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Join us in Paris (21-25 September) for a workshop on EEG/MEG! 🧠 Register here: cuttingeeg.org/cuttinggarde...

CuttingEEG@cuttingeeg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🇫🇷 Paris, France #CuttingGardens2026 cuttingeeg.org/cuttinggarde... 🧠 Topics BCI, Spontaneous & Evoked Activity, M/EEG Preprocessing, BIDS and HED 🎓 Tutorials M/EEG Preprocessing, BIDS / HED 🫶 Thank you Paris Gardeners! 🫶

🥳📰 Our new paper on sleep-like slow waves (resting-state EEG recordings) in older adults is now out in A&D journal! 🥳📰 Thanks @alzheimer-recherche.org for support and to co-authors! @alzassociation.bsky.social @institutducerveau.bsky.social alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sleep‐like slow waves during resting‐state: A promising EEG biomarker of amyloid and neurodegeneration in preclinical Alzheimer's disease

INTRODUCTION Growing evidence supports a critical role of sleep slow waves (SW) in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, wake SW (sleep-like SW potentially reflecting local intrusions of sleep) remain ...

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Thomas Andrillon@thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🥳 New article by @champetier-pierre.bsky.social In subjective cognitive decline, resting-state #sleep like slow waves predict: 1) amyloid and neurodegeneration status 🧠 2) memory performance 📝 3) conversion to amyloid positivity within 2 years alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Tired of manually scoring your sleep recordings? Postdoc from our lab @paulzerr.bsky.social recently released NIDRA v0.2.3, an open-source autoscoring GUI & Python package for super simple sleep autoscoring using different established ML algorithms. Download here: nidra.netlify.app

Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.

New article with @oudietted.bsky.social and the @dreamteamicm.bsky.social Dream-like mental states can occur during wakefulness Published now in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports... Congrats to Nicolas Decat!

New paper (with lots of cute animal videos!) Ever watch your dog "run" while asleep and wonder what’s going on in their brain? In Current Bio we suggest that those twitches aren't just leaky dreams—they’re a vital maintenance system for the most precise movements www.cell.com/current-biol...

REM-sleep twitching in adults and the maintenance of specialized sensorimotor systems

Blumberg et al. present video evidence of twitching during adult sleep in a diverse sample of animals. Adult twitching appears to selectively involve appendages used for active sensing, mirroring thei...

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Our paper is out today!!! (not an April fool's day joke) Congrats to authors @azulsilva.bsky.social, @belalima-paiva.bsky.social, Ele Pronier, and mostly to the amazing scientist and human being who led this project @facuumm.bsky.social #neuroskyence #hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dorsoventral hippocampus neural assemblies reactivate during sleep following an aversive experience - Nature Neuroscience

Synchronization of sharp-wave ripples across the dorsoventral hippocampus during sleep supports coordinated reactivation that represents negative experiences more faithfully than positive ones.

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CuttingGardens 2026 is back 🌍 Global EEG & MEG multi-hub meeting 📅 Save the date: Sept 21–25 20+ Gardens worldwide 🇦🇷🇦🇺🇧🇪🇨🇱🇨🇳🇨🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇳🇱🇵🇱🇪🇸🇨🇭🇹🇭🇹🇳🇬🇧🇺🇾🇺🇸🇳🇬🇰🇪🇪🇬🇹🇿 Join the movement 🌱 #EEG #MEG #Neuroscience #OpenScience #CuttingGardens

🚨 Paper alert 🚨 Our work on sleep intrusions in #ADHD is now published in Journal of Neuroscience @sfnjournals.bsky.social www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2026/03/05/JNEUROSCI.1694-25.2025 Adults with ADHD show more sleep-like slow waves during wake, which partially account for ADHD symptoms 🧪💤

Sleep-like Slow Waves During Wakefulness Mediate Attention and Vigilance Difficulties in Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is characterised by behavioural variability and heightened inattention associated with increased mind wandering (MW) and mind blanking (MB). Individuals...

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New in #JNeurosci from Pinggal et al: Medication-withdrawn adults with ADHD exhibit more sleep-like brain activity while awake than neurotypical adults that is linked to poorer performance in a task that requires sustained attention. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1694-25.2025

New publication out today from the amazing PhD dissertation of Karen Konkoly @karenkonkoly.bsky.social in Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social : Creative problem-solving after experimentally provoking dreams of unsolved puzzles during REM sleep academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Creative problem-solving after experimentally provoking dreams of unsolved puzzles during REM sleep

Abstract. Dreams have arguably been a source of creative insight for millennia. The specific assertion that dreams during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep pr

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Happy to share new preprint on wake slow waves in older adults with subjective cognitive decline, with my awesome postdoc mentors @thomasandrillon.bsky.social & @oudietted.bsky.social at @institutducerveau.bsky.social Thanks @alzheimer-recherche.org for support! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Sleep-like slow waves during resting-state: a promising EEG biomarker of amyloid and neurodegeneration in preclinical Alzheimer disease

INTRODUCTION: Growing evidence supports a critical role of sleep slow waves (SW) in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, wake SW (sleep-like SW potentially reflecting local intrusions of sleep) remain u...

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Evolutionary insights into sleep infraslow rhythmicity! Excited to see research investigating such rhythms beyond humans and rodent models, including pigeons 🐦 and 7 lizard species 🦎

Thomas Andrillon@thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Infra-slow brain rhythms found in sleep in lizards, humans, rats and pigeons! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats @antbergel.bsky.social!

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

Announcing the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop (ISRW): March 6, 2026, Vancouver, prior to CNS. Program: poster session, discussion groups, 2 symposia, 7 short talks, & many opportunities to interact. Register by Dec 19 at isrw.bio.uci.edu All researchers focused on sleep/cognition welcome.

#CNS2026 | Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Salon F The workshop is open to all: experience with sleep research is not required. Register here: isrw.bio.uci.edu Registration Deadline, February 15th @cogneuronews.bsky.social #SleepRelay

Workshops, Socials & Special Events - Cognitive Neuroscience Society

March 7 – 10, 2026 CNS Account CNS 2026 | Workshops, Socials & Special Events   SESSION DATE TIME LOCATION Satellite – International Sleep Replay Workshop Friday, March 6 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Salon F Wor...

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International recommendations for sleep and circadian research in aging and Alzheimer's disease: A Delphi consensus study alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

International recommendations for sleep and circadian research in aging and Alzheimer's disease: A Delphi consensus study

INTRODUCTION Research in the field of sleep, aging, and dementia is rapidly growing. Consensus guidance is needed to facilitate high-quality research, comparability, and consistency. METHODS A mod...

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Our paper on CSF, BOLD, pupil, and physiological measures in sleep deprivation and recovery sleep is finally out! 🎉 Congrats Zinong! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics - Nature Neuroscience

Yang et al. show that moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered bra...

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Amazing new study combining functional PET(fPET)-FDG and EEG-fMRI simultaneously during wakefulness and sleep, providing both temporal and spatial insights into metabolic and hemodynamic activities at the infraslow scale (~0.02 Hz) during NREM sleep. Wow 🤯 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brain and Sleep Research Laboratory@bsrlaboratory.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Simultaneous EEG-PET-MRI identifies temporally coupled and spatially structured brain dynamics across wakefulness and NREM sleep www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

Check out our new preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... And Paris' thread (@parboulakis.bsky.social): bsky.app/profile/parb... Where we explore the neural signature of mind blanking using EEG and fMRI combined!

Distinct cortical profiles underlie the common reportability of thought-free experiences

Mind blanking (MB) is a mental state of seemingly no reportable thought content. The question of how we can entertain no thoughts while awake is challenging for the study of spontaneous thinking. By c...

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Paradeisios Alexandros Boulakis@parboulakis.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨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 ...

1/ "Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans" - out now in @plosbiology.org, led by Michele Colombo, Jacopo Favaro, & Marcello Massimini. 🧠

Please RT! 🙏🙏🙏 1/3 How do you correct for multiple comparisons? Do you take into account *all* comparisons that can render the paper publishable? Most of us don’t. In this NHB piece, Yoav Benjamini, Yoav Zeevi and I argue that it’s time to change our practices >> www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous - Nature Human Behaviour

Nature Human Behaviour - Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous

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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...

Induction of cortical ON/OFF periods in awake mice fulfills sleep functions

Can animals obtain core benefits of sleep while remaining awake? In mammals, slow-wave sleep is characterized by synchronized neuronal activity alternating between ON and OFF periods. Slow-wave activi...

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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.

Sleep stage mixing is associated with poor prognosis in early Parkinson’s disease - npj Parkinson's Disease

npj Parkinson's Disease - Sleep stage mixing is associated with poor prognosis in early Parkinson’s disease

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17,058 proposals received, 1,650 to be funded. Break-even, where more money is paid out than burned by the process, is ~2 months time investment per application (assuming only few admin/review/non-submitted efforts). Uncomfortably close to predatory territory: doi.org/10.1111/imcb...

<em>Immunology & Cell Biology</em> | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library

Researchers are spending an increasing fraction of their time on applying for funding; however, the current funding system has considerable deficiencies in reliably evaluating the merit of research p....

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European Commission@ec.europa.eu · last yr.

The 2025 call for #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships drew 17,058 applications worldwide. A 64.6% increase from 2024, it's the most popular call in over four decades. Excellence thrives where it is enabled, protected and shared — and Europe provides that environment. → europa.eu/!jcnGgP #ChooseEurope

Preprint on sleep-like slow waves during wakefulness in Parkinson's disease

Inspiring preprint on delta waves in REM (yes, REM) sleep in the context of ageing and Alzheimer's disease, great work!

Omer Sharon@omersharon.bsky.social · last yr.

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...