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TL;DR: A 2026 iScience study used simultaneous EEG-fMRI from 24 healthy adults to build reference maps for slow-wave events (SWEs), brief sleep-related brain waves, and proposed SloCAD as a way to measure how an individual brain deviates from healthy slow-wave…
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TL;DR: A 2026 eNeuro study of 163 people ages 3-25 found that sleep history and age shaped waking electroencephalography (EEG) oscillations, while children with ADHD showed distinct sleep-wake EEG patterns. Key Findings Sleep and development interact to shape…
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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv preprint found that targeted memory reactivation (TMR), replaying learned sounds during non-REM sleep, changed spindle and slow-wave density during a nap but did not improve motor memory retention in Parkinson’s disease or healthy older a…
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