Breathing sets the timing for memory processing during sleep! In our new preprint, precisely shifting memory cues within the respiratory cycle changed oscillatory coordination, memory reactivation and next-morning recall. Fabulous work by @estebanbt.bsky.social, with @tobiasstaudigl.bsky.social!👇

Esteban@estebanbt.bsky.social · 18h ago

Summer Preprint Alert 🔥🚨 Breathing isn't just for oxygen; it’s a rhythmic pacemaker for the sleeping brain. Our new preprint shows that the respiratory cycle actually gates memory reactivation during NREM sleep! 🧠😴💨 👇🧵(1/8)

Summer Preprint Alert 🔥🚨 Breathing isn't just for oxygen; it’s a rhythmic pacemaker for the sleeping brain. Our new preprint shows that the respiratory cycle actually gates memory reactivation during NREM sleep! 🧠😴💨 👇🧵(1/8)

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · yesterday

The breathing cycle gates memory reactivation during human NREM sleep https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741474v1

When children start school, how do their brains change to support learning of formal mathematics? Our new paper, with @standehaene.bsky.social, just out in PNAS, followed ~50 children with yearly fMRI scans over 3 years, from preschool to 2nd grade, to see how this network develops. 🧵

Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🧠🧪💤 New preprint! Diminished Stimulus-Evoked Activity During Sustained Attention Without Behavioural Cost in ADHD Adults with ADHD show clear neural differences during a sustained attention task, yet perform just as well as neurotypicals. 🧵 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #ADHD #EEG #Attention

Diminished Stimulus-Evoked Activity During Sustained Attention Without Behavioural Cost in ADHD

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is often accompanied by attentional challenges, sleep difficulties and increased reports of daytime sleepiness, indicating potential links between atten...

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A little update to this thread: our preprint is now officially published in JNeuro! We show that behavioural benefits from multisensory stimulation persist during sleep onset, even as neural dynamics change. Huge thanks to the amazing team 🫶 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Drowsiness alters the neural dynamics but not the core computations of multisensory integration

Fluctuations in alertness shape perception and behaviour, yet how they affect the brain’s ability to integrate information across senses remains poorly understood. Here we investigated whether multise...

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Clara Alameda@claraalamedaj.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Multisensory integration is often described as basic, robust, even ✨“cognitively impenetrable” ✨ But does the brain still bind the senses when alertness drops? 😴🧠 🔗 We tested this during natural sleep onset: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread below 👇

Meet SpudCell, a synthetic cell made from lifeless ingredients that feeds, grows, divides, and experiences selection. If it doesn't have all the hallmarks of life, it has a lot! Here's my story. Gift link: nyti.ms/4vCbTih

New preprint! We show low arousal states promote hippocampal ripple genesis in sleep and wake. This bridges rodent work, where ripples predominate during sleep, with human studies reporting ripples during active behavior, identifying low arousal as a common mechanism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Arousal state modulates human hippocampal ripples

Hippocampal ripples are transient, high-frequency oscillations linked to memory replay and consolidation. Ripples are well-characterized in rodents to occur during periods of behavioral inactivity (i....

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🎙️ Today at 11am at the Paris Brain Institute, Luis DELECEA, Depart of Psychiatry & Behavorial Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine, will talk about "Neuromodulation of Brain States". 👉 More information on our website: parisbraininstitute.org/agenda/scien...

Scientific lectures: Neuromodulation of Brain States | Paris Brain Institute

Speaker : Luis DELECEA, Depart of Psychiatry & Behavorial Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine"Neuromodulation of Brain States"

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"It was getting hotter [...] It reminded him of the air in a sauna. This the coolest part of the day [...] And then the sun cracked the eastern horizon. It blazed like an atomic bomb" I will always remember the incipit of "The Ministry of the Future" from K.S. Robinson. A must-read! #heatwave

Now out in Child Dev: "If moms do it, it can't be that important: Children's reasoning about gender disparities in domestic work" academic.oup.com/chidev/advan... Kids' awareness that moms do most housework + their intrinsic explanations for this jointly predict their devaluing domestic work 🧵

What a splendid piece of work!!! "Brain-wide properties of slow waves across vigilance states" academic.oup.com/sleepadvance...

Brain-wide properties of slow waves across vigilance states

Using a large dataset of intracranial recordings in 106 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, we show that key morphological features of SWs change across

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I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

Registration is now open for the Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference & Workshop 2026! Neuromodulation of Neuronal Circuits: From Behavior to Computation Paris Brain Institute 16–17 September 2026 Registration is free (but required): www.paris-circuits.eu

Paris Circuit Dynamics

This conference will bring together leading experts to discuss how neuromodulatory systems shape neuronal circuit dynamics, behavior, and computation. The program will focus on how neuromodulators suc...

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What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

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La conscience est l'un des grands mystères des neurosciences. Comment le cerveau produit-il cette expérience subjective, ce sentiment d'être soi ? C'est le sujet de recherche de Catherine Tallon-Baudry et on vous explique tout juste ici 👇

Vibrant Galaxy Brain

ALT: Vibrant Galaxy Brain

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We are hosting a special issue on "Is There More to Consciousness Than Computation?" in @nconsc.bsky.social. Full information here: academic.oup.com/nc/pages/cal... With @krysdolega.bsky.social and Yair Pinto.

Call for Papers | Neuroscience of Consciousness

Neuroscience of Consciousness (NCON) is a peer-reviewed, fully open access journal that provides a unique forum for the interdisciplinary fields of consciousnes

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Agentic coding makes it possible to specify a neuroscience model in hours instead of months, writes @briandepasquale.bsky.social. The field risks becoming prolific but shallow—generating models faster than we can generate insights. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

How AI coding is reshaping theoretical neuroscience

Agentic coding makes it possible to specify a neuroscience model in hours instead of months. Neuroscientists weigh in on that tectonic change.

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When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

"I no longer steer; I commission."

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've had access to Claude 5 Fable for a bit. A genuine jump in capability, I could feed it a 15 page design document for a project and it would work for 9+ hours and deliver terrific results. But working with it is weird & weirder is coming Lots of examples: open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

New paper from our group: using simultaneous EEG-fMRI, we investigated the neural mechanisms underlying individual NREM sleep slow waves. Our findings suggest that slow waves are not a homogeneous phenomenon and may reflect distinct physiological processes. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Thalamic involvement defines distinct slow-wave subtypes in NREM sleep - Communications Biology

Using simultaneous EEG-fMRI, we identify two types of NREM slow waves with distinct thalamic profiles. Large, synchronized waves involve early thalamic activation and arousal markers, whereas smaller ...

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Following a microsleep, arousal-promoting subcortical nuclei come back online in a beautiful sequence, restoring wakefulness and responsiveness. This video captures such a recovery in a drowsy participant performing an attention task. Details: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.26.728061v1

Our scientifically accessible book chapter "Spontaneous Thoughts and Experiences across Wakefulness and Sleep" is now available. Wonderfully led by @parboulakis.bsky.social, w/ @jdsitt.bsky.social and @thomasandrillon.bsky.social. Edited by #LuciaMelloni and #UmbertoOlcese👇👇👇

Paradeisios Alexandros Boulakis@parboulakis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Blank, and you might miss it. Our chapter, “Spontaneous Thoughts and Experiences across Wakefulness and Sleep,” for the upcoming book The Scientific Study of Consciousness: Experimental & Theoretical Approaches, is now available at www.horizon-minds.com.

Blank, and you might miss it. Our chapter, “Spontaneous Thoughts and Experiences across Wakefulness and Sleep,” for the upcoming book The Scientific Study of Consciousness: Experimental & Theoretical Approaches, is now available at www.horizon-minds.com.

Horizon Minds

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Retrouvez la conférence de Delphine Oudiette du @institutducerveau.bsky.social à la tribune de l'Académie " Au-delà de la dichotomie veille-sommeil : vers une nouvelle vision des états de conscience" #Medsky 🧪 👩‍🔬#neuroskyence youtu.be/9rQXSclXS0E

D Oudiette Au-delà de la dichotomie veille-sommeil: vers une nouvelle vision des états de conscience

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🥳📰 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 · 2mo 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/...

What happens when the brain slips into a microsleep? An example from a highly drowsy participant showing a brief loss of responsiveness (at time 0s). Details of the research: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🥳 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/...

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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No they don't! Humans report being conscious half of the time when awoken from NREM sleep. The NREM/REM, conscious/unconscious dichotomy has been thoroughly debunked. It's time we stop oversimplifying the relationship between sleep and consciousness!

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · 2mo ago

Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans

"hitherto-unreported brain-state-specific oscillation of approximately 19–45 Hz"??? Sophia Snipes published a paper on very similar findings in scalp EEG: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.... The authors of the NHB paper were made aware of these findings! Quite disappointing...

Iota oscillations (25–35 Hz) during wake and REM sleep in children and young adults | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society

High-frequency brain oscillations in humans are currently categorized into beta (13–30 Hz) and gamma (>30 Hz). Here, I introduce a new class of oscillations between 25 and 35 Hz, which I propose to ca...

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Earl K. Miller@earlkmiller.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thalamic recordings show a rhythm that’s strong in wake and REM and absent in deep sleep: An electrophysiological signature of conscious states. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience