Young jumping spiders dangle by a thread through the night, in a box, in a lab. Every so often, their legs curl and their spinnerets twitch—and the retinas of their eyes, visible through their ...
Rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep is a distinct behavioral state associated with vivid dreaming and memory processing. Phasic bursts of electrical activity, measurable as spike-like pontine (P)-waves, ...
People who sleep longer and spend more time in the rapid-eye-movement stage report richer, more emotionally charged dreams, ...
Rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep is generated in the brainstem, but the brainstem population dynamics that drive transitions to REM sleep remain largely unknown. Here, combining mouse Neuropixels ...