Sleep, plasticity, and sensory neurodevelopment

The influence of spontaneous and visual activity on the development of direction selectivity maps in mouse retina

(2022) Alexandre Tiriac et al.   Cell Reports

Making sense of neural development by comparing wiring strategies for seeing and hearing

(2021) A. A. Sitko et al.   SCIENCE

Early peripheral activity alters nascent subplate circuits in the auditory cortex

(2021) Xiangying Meng et al.   Science Advances

Twitches emerge postnatally during quiet sleep in human infants and are synchronized with sleep spindles

(2021) Greta Sokoloff et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mechanosensory input during circuit formation shapes Drosophila motor behavior through patterned spontaneous network activity

(2021) Arnaldo Carreira-Rosario et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sensory Coding of Limb Kinematics in Motor Cortex across a Key Developmental Transition

(2021) Ryan M. Glanz et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Spontaneous activity in developing thalamic and cortical sensory networks

(2021) Francisco J. Martini et al.   NEURON

Retinal waves prime visual motion detection by simulating future optic flow

(2021) Xinxin Ge et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of Severe Sleep Disruption on the Synaptic Ultrastructure of Young Mice

(2021) Hirotaka Nagai et al.   eNeuro

An electrically coupled pioneer circuit enables motor development via proprioceptive feedback in Drosophila embryos

(2021) Xiangsunze Zeng et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Movements during sleep reveal the developmental emergence of a cerebellar-dependent internal model in motor thalamus

(2021) James C. Dooley et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Visuomotor control in mice and primates

(2021) E.J. Tehovnik et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

What Is REM Sleep?

(2020) Mark S. Blumberg et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Self-Generated Whisker Movements Drive State-Dependent Sensory Input to Developing Barrel Cortex

(2020) James C. Dooley et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Identification of a molecular basis for the juvenile sleep state

(2020) Leela Chakravarti Dilley et al.   eLife

Current ideas about the roles of rapid eye movement and non–rapid eye movement sleep in brain development

(2020) Marit S. Knoop et al.   ACTA PAEDIATRICA

Network Dynamics in the Developing Piriform Cortex of Unanesthetized Rats

(2020) Zihao Zhang et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Looking at neurodevelopment through a big data lens

(2020) James Briscoe et al.   SCIENCE

REM sleep promotes experience-dependent dendritic spine elimination in the mouse cortex

(2020) Yanmei Zhou et al.   Nature Communications

Unraveling why we sleep: Quantitative analysis reveals abrupt transition from neural reorganization to repair in early development

(2020) Junyu Cao et al.   Science Advances

Prenatal activity from thalamic neurons governs the emergence of functional cortical maps in mice

(2019) Noelia Antón-Bolaños et al.   SCIENCE

How rhythms of the sleeping brain tune memory and synaptic plasticity

(2019) Carlos Puentes-Mestril et al.   SLEEP

Arousal and sleep circuits

(2019) Barbara E. Jones   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Visual Cortex Gains Independence from Peripheral Drive before Eye Opening

(2019) Alexandra Gribizis et al.   NEURON

Neuromodulation of Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity: Past, Present, and Future

(2019) Zuzanna Brzosko et al.   NEURON

Organized Toe Maps in Extreme Foot Users

(2019) Harriet Dempsey-Jones et al.   Cell Reports

Active Sleep Promotes Coherent Oscillatory Activity in the Cortico-Hippocampal System of Infant Rats

(2019) Carlos Del Rio-Bermudez et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Sleep Spindles: Mechanisms and Functions

(2019) Laura M. J. Fernandez et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Thalamocortical function in developing sensory circuits

(2018) Matthew T Colonnese et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Anatomical correlates of rapid eye movement sleep-dependent plasticity in the developing cortex

(2018) Leslie Renouard et al.   SLEEP

A sleep state in Drosophila larvae required for neural stem cell proliferation

(2018) Milan Szuperak et al.   eLife

Anatomical correlates of rapid eye movement sleep-dependent plasticity in the developing cortex

(2018) Leslie Renouard et al.   SLEEP

Thalamus controls development and expression of arousal states in visual cortex

(2018) Yasunobu Murata et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Distributed network interactions and their emergence in developing neocortex

(2018) Gordon B. Smith et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Light Prior to Eye Opening Promotes Retinal Waves and Eye-Specific Segregation

(2018) Alexandre Tiriac et al.   NEURON

Developmental trajectory of movement-related cortical oscillations during active sleep in a cross-sectional cohort of pre-term and full-term human infants

(2018) Kimberley Whitehead et al.   Scientific Reports

Corollary discharge in precerebellar nuclei of sleeping infant rats

(2018) Didhiti Mukherjee et al.   eLife

Developmental 'awakening' of primary motor cortex to the sensory consequences of movement

(2018) James C Dooley et al.   eLife

Thalamic inhibitory circuits and network activity development

(2018) Yasunobu Murata et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Wakefulness suppresses retinal wave-related neural activity in visual cortex

(2017) Didhiti Mukherjee et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

REM sleep selectively prunes and maintains new synapses in development and learning

(2017) Wei Li et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Electrical activity controls area-specific expression of neuronal apoptosis in the mouse developing cerebral cortex

(2017) Oriane Blanquie et al.   eLife

Sleep and Development in Genetically Tractable Model Organisms

(2016) Matthew S. Kayser et al.   GENETICS

Slow rhythms and sleep spindles in early infancy

(2016) R.T. Wakai et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Causal evidence for the role of REM sleep theta rhythm in contextual memory consolidation

(2016) R. Boyce et al.   SCIENCE

A new view of “dream enactment” in REM sleep behavior disorder

(2016) Mark S. Blumberg et al.   SLEEP MEDICINE REVIEWS

Sensory feedback synchronizes motor and sensory neuronal networks in the neonatal rat spinal cord

(2016) Ana R. Inácio et al.   Nature Communications

Sleep and Development in Genetically Tractable Model Organisms

(2016) Matthew S. Kayser et al.   GENETICS

Corollary Discharge and Oculomotor Proprioception: Cortical Mechanisms for Spatially Accurate Vision

(2016) Linus D. Sun et al.   Annual Review of Vision Science

Development of Twitching in Sleeping Infant Mice Depends on Sensory Experience

(2015) Mark S. Blumberg et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sensorimotor Processing in the Newborn Rat Red Nucleus during Active Sleep

(2015) C. Del Rio-Bermudez et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Rapid eye movement sleep promotes cortical plasticity in the developing brain

(2015) M. C. Dumoulin Bridi et al.   Science Advances

The development of sleep–wake rhythms and the search for elemental circuits in the infant brain.

(2014) Mark S. Blumberg et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Imprecise Whisker Map in the Neonatal Rat Barrel Cortex

(2014) Olga Mitrukhina et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Self-Generated Movements with “Unexpected” Sensory Consequences

(2014) Alexandre Tiriac et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Visual Circuit Development Requires Patterned Activity Mediated by Retinal Acetylcholine Receptors

(2014) Timothy J. Burbridge et al.   NEURON

The energy allocation function of sleep: A unifying theory of sleep, torpor, and continuous wakefulness

(2014) Markus H. Schmidt   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

From Spontaneous Motor Activity to Coordinated Behaviour: A Developmental Model

(2014) Hugo Gravato Marques et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase (ERK) Activity During Sleep Consolidates Cortical Plasticity In Vivo

(2013) Michelle C. Dumoulin et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Sleep, Plasticity and Memory from Molecules to Whole-Brain Networks

(2013) Ted Abel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Twitching in Sensorimotor Development from Sleeping Rats to Robots

(2013) Mark S. Blumberg et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Following the ontogeny of retinal waves: pan-retinal recordings of population dynamics in the neonatal mouse

(2013) Alessandro Maccione et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

Postnatal neuronal apoptosis in the cerebral cortex: Physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms

(2013) M. Nikolić et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

About Sleep's Role in Memory

(2013) Björn Rasch et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Visual experience and subsequent sleep induce sequential plastic changes in putative inhibitory and excitatory cortical neurons

(2013) S. J. Aton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Retinal waves coordinate patterned activity throughout the developing visual system

(2012) James B. Ackman et al.   NATURE

An Instructive Role for Patterned Spontaneous Retinal Activity in Mouse Visual Map Development

(2011) Hong-ping Xu et al.   NEURON

Assembly and disassembly of a retinal cholinergic network

(2011) KEVIN J. FORD et al.   VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE

Do the eyes scan dream images during rapid eye movement sleep? Evidence from the rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder model

(2010) Laurène Leclair-Visonneau et al.   BRAIN

Rapid spine stabilization and synaptic enhancement at the onset of behavioural learning

(2010) Todd F. Roberts et al.   NATURE

Direction-Specific Disruption of Subcortical Visual Behavior and Receptive Fields in Mice Lacking the  2 Subunit of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

(2009) L. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Mechanisms of Sleep-Dependent Consolidation of Cortical Plasticity

(2009) Sara J. Aton et al.   NEURON

Dynamics of a Memory Trace: Effects of Sleep on Consolidation

(2008) Claire Jackson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

fMRI evidence for multisensory recruitment associated with rapid eye movements during sleep

(2008) Charles Chong-Hwa Hong et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Synchronous Bursts of Neuronal Activity in the Developing Hippocampus: Modulation by Active Sleep and Association with Emerging Gamma and Theta Rhythms

(2008) E. J. Mohns et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Action-Based Body Maps in the Spinal Cord Emerge from a Transitory Floating Organization

(2008) M. Granmo et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Sleep and sensorimotor integration during early vocal learning in a songbird

(2008) Sylvan S. Shank et al.   NATURE

Corollary discharge across the animal kingdom

(2008) Trinity B. Crapse et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE