Dhinakaran M. Chinappen

This study examines sleep spindle activity in children with childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) and finds that spindle rates decrease with active disease but improve with treatment and disease resolution.

Auditory stimulation during sleep increases slow oscillations and SO-spindle complexes, which correlate with improved memory consolidation in children with epilepsy and controls.

This study examines the cross-regional interplay of sleep oscillations in memory consolidation using intracranial recordings from epilepsy patients and finds that specific oscillation combinations and epileptic spikes affect memory outcomes.

This study finds that reduced sleep spindles in children with active Rolandic epilepsy predict impaired sleep-dependent memory consolidation.

The paper shows that epileptic spikes during sleep block sleep spindle production in thalamic recordings of patients with epileptic encephalopathy.