Sara J. Aton

This study examines how brief sleep deprivation after learning affects synaptic structures of SST+ interneurons in the entorhinal cortex, revealing subregion-specific changes in dendritic spines and excitatory/inhibitory balance.

This study investigates how activation of SST+ and PV+ interneurons in the dentate gyrus affects spatial memory processing stages in mice, revealing differential impacts on encoding, consolidation, and retrieval.

This study compares the effects of CNO and C21 on spatial memory encoding in mice, finding that CNO impairs memory while C21 does not.

This study investigates how brief sleep disruption affects synaptic structures of SST+ interneurons in hippocampus and neocortex, finding region-specific changes in spine density and size.

This study shows that sleep-dependent reactivation of engram neurons in the hippocampal dentate gyrus is subregion-specific and linked to changes in biosynthetic processes during memory consolidation.

The paper uses a computational model and in vivo recordings to show NREM and REM sleep have distinct roles in memory consolidation, with NREM expanding memory traces and REM preventing overlap.

ML297, a GIRK1 activator, restores sleep architecture after fear learning, enhancing memory consolidation and hippocampal network activity during recall.

This study shows that binocular visual experience and sleep together restore visual cortex function in a mouse model of amblyopia.

The paper investigates how sleep loss affects ribosome-associated transcripts in specific brain regions and cell types, finding region- and cell type-specific changes in transcripts related to synaptic plasticity and cellular timekeeping.

This study compares binocular and monocular recovery experiences in a mouse amblyopia model, finding binocular recovery more effective for visual function restoration.

The paper shows that sleep-associated reactivation of visual engram neurons in mice is necessary for fear memory consolidation.

The paper shows sleep loss disrupts hippocampal memory consolidation by activating somatostatin interneurons and cholinergic inputs, which inhibit memory-related activity.

The paper examines how learning and sleep affect ribosomal mRNA profiles in hippocampal neurons, finding that sleep loss disrupts post-learning transcript changes more in active neurons.

The paper investigates how non-REM sleep aids in consolidating contextual fear memory through changes in hippocampal neuron firing patterns and spike timing relationships.

The paper investigates how sleep-associated theta oscillations and network resonance during slow-wave sleep support memory consolidation through phase-coding and synaptic reorganization.

This study shows that sub-threshold resonance in neural networks helps encode and retrieve information by organizing neuronal activity and limiting excessive synaptic strengthening.