Sleep spindles

Monika Schönauer; Dorothee Pöhlchen

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.035

Sleep spindles

Curr Biol. 2018 Oct 8;28(19):R1129-R1130. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.035.

Authors

Monika Schönauer¹, Dorothee Pöhlchen²

Affiliations

¹ Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Electronic address: m.schonauer@princeton.edu.
² Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

PMID: 30300592
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.035

Abstract

Schönauer and Pöhlchen introduce the reader to sleep spindles, brain oscillations that occur during nREM sleep that are thought to function in the stabilization of memories.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Brain / physiology
Brain Waves / physiology*
Cognition
Electroencephalography / methods
Humans
Memory
Sleep / physiology*
Sleep Stages / physiology*