ReviewNeuron2024
Consciousness and sleep.
Review in Neuron, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A methodological guideline for consciousness assessment via neural electrophysiological activity.Military Medical Research · 2025Guideline
- Esketamine improves postoperative sleep quality in thoracic surgery patients with preoperative sleep disturbance: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Trial
- Evolution and Reorganization of the Hierarchical Brain-wide Neuronal Network Through Anesthesia.Neuroscience bulletin · 2026Article
- Invertebrate brains as diversified models for understanding sleep mechanisms and function.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Review
- Causal Associations Between Sedentary Time and Sleep Traits.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- A three-component dynamical index of consciousness-related neural organisation.Biological cybernetics · 2026Article
- The glymphatic system in sleep: a nexus of waste clearance, brain homeostasis, and disease intervention.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Review
- Individual traits and experiences predict the content of dreams.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Multisensory integration in peripersonal space indexes consciousness states in sleep and disorders of consciousness.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- A hippocampal 'sharp-wave sleep' state that is dissociable from cortical sleep.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
- Dexmedetomidine produces more sleep-like brain activity compared with propofol in human participants.British journal of anaesthesia · 2026Article
- Bridging dream and wake states: a new tool for consciousness research.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Creative problem-solving after experimentally provoking dreams of unsolved puzzles during REM sleep.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
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- Defining imagination: a conceptual mapping and provisional model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Windows to Consciousness: The Role of Fronto-Parietal Connectivity in Anesthesia-Induced Unconsciousness.Current neuropharmacology · 2026Review
- The cathartic dream: Using a large language model to study a new type of functional dream in healthy and clinical populations.Journal of sleep research · 2025Article
- Neural mechanism of conscious perception for potential clinical applications.Clinical and translational medicine · 2025Article
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- First night effect alters occipital brain connectivity in horses.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Sleep is a universal, essential biological process. It is also an invaluable window on consciousness. It tells us that consciousness can be lost but also that it can be regained, in all its richness, when we are disconnected from the environment and unable to reflect. By considering the neurophysiological differences between dreaming and dreamless sleep, we can learn about the substrate of consciousness and understand why it vanishes. We also learn that the ongoing state of the substrate of consciousness determines the way each experience feels regardless of how it is triggered-endogenously or exogenously. Dreaming consciousness is also a window on sleep and its functions. Dreams tell us that the sleeping brain is remarkably lively, recombining intrinsic activation patterns from a vast repertoire, freed from the requirements of ongoing behavior and cognitive control.
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