Patterns of communication between the thalamus and the cortex are correlated with anesthesia-induced loss of consciousness and recovery.

A single night of sleep deprivation suppresses fighting behaviors in male fruit flies, with consequent impairments in reproductive fitness.

A neural circuit that can selectively induce sleep-like patterns in small regions of the brain demonstrates how sleep and arousal states may be controlled in local brain regions.

Sleep plays a critical role in the selectivity of memory by promoting the retention of important memories at the expense of less relevant ones.

Human fMRI experiments reveal differences in the propagation of spontaneous brain activity during sleep versus wakefulness.

Cholinergic system play an important role in waking-to-sleep cycles and in sleep stabilization.

Building on previous work (Wang et al., 2014), we use a combination of genetic, electrophysiology and laser ablation approaches to identify a developmentally defined population of neurons that are a significant source of clinically relevant inspiratory drive to XII motoneurons.

Active expiration in anesthetized rats is driven by the lateral parafacial region, but requires an additional form of excitation from another source.

A neural gating mechanism in the external cuneate nucleus of the rat brain is engaged during wake movements and disengaged during sleep-related twitches.

A computational model of the thalamocortical network explains sleep stages by the coordinated variations in the level of neuromodulators and predicts differences of sleep pattern in human, cat and mouse recordings.