@LabNir

Studying sleep, anesthesia, neuromodulation, memory, and sensory processing, combining human and animal models, Tel Aviv University | @labnir.bsky.social

Joined February 2019
1/14 How does sleep help memory? we developed closed-loop deep brain stimulation during sleep in human prefrontal cortex w/ timing based on hippocampal activity TLDR: boosting hippocampus-cortex coordination improves memory @NatureNeuro | rdcu.be/ddxxR
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Arthur C. Clarke on BBC's Horizon in 1964, when he gave some astonishing predictions about the future.
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A sleeping octopus changing colors as she dreams.
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Congratulations @FalachRotem for Michaelson's Excellence Award in Alzheimer's Disease Research! very proud of you & your achievements in developing novel methods for detecting abnormal sleep activities in Alzheimer's. Publication soon stay tuned ๐Ÿคฉ @of_sagol @TAUMedFaculty
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Cell vulnerability within the sublaterodorsal tegmental nucleus underlies 2 REM sleep behaviour disorder in prodromal ฮฑ-synucleinopathy: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898โ€ฆ
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Proud and delighted to wish our own @barak191 good luck: Barak just joined the lab of @nir_grossman at @imperialcollege London to take #temporal interference (TI) to new levels. Good luck Barak! Looking forward to hearing about your amazing scientific discoveries
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Proud to share that our own @NMatosevich just received the Rotschild Fellowship to study how breathing and breathlessness modulate emotions and arousal, at the Kevin Yackle lab @UCSF. Good luck Noa! Looking forward to hearing about your amazing scientific discoveries
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A Conserved Locus Coeruleus fMRI Signature of Brain-State Transitions across Sleep, Anesthesia, and Wakefulness: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898โ€ฆ
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Entrained cortical deltaโ€“spindle activity, not periodic synchrony, prevents arousal by NREM thalamic bursts nature.com/articles/s42003-0โ€ฆ
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Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals nature.com/articles/s41593-0โ€ฆ
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The Mind's Eye: A quest from vision to consciousness - symposium honoring Rafi Malach Incredible lineup celebrating the career of an amazing scientist. Join us on December 14-15 at the Weizmann Institute ! @ShaGilDot @GaliaAvidan @kalatwt @ShanyGrossman @HassonLab @MichalRamot
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