Scott A. Cairney

This study shows that sleep deprivation impairs emotional adaptation to prolonged threat, increasing anxiety-like responses in healthy adults.

The paper identifies theta oscillations as a mechanism for tagging memories during learning, which predicts sleep-dependent consolidation through coupling with slow oscillations and sleep spindles.

This study shows that sleep deprivation disrupts prefrontal inhibition of memory retrieval, linking sleep loss to intrusive memories through impaired neural circuits.

This study investigates how verbal and non-verbal retrieval cues affect memory reactivation in sleep, finding verbal cues elicit stronger spindle activity than non-verbal cues.

This study examines the effect of daytime naps on word learning in children and adults, finding naps maintain explicit memory but no lexical integration, with white matter correlates in children.

This study investigates how sleep and sleep deprivation affect memory consolidation and learning, finding that sleep supports memory but not necessarily consolidation's role in new learning.

This study shows that sleep deprivation impairs the ability to suppress unwanted memories, leading to increased negative affect and potentially contributing to psychiatric conditions.

The paper shows that memory cues during sleep increase fast spindles and SO up states, which are linked to memory retention and decoding of memory categories.