Leslie M. Yack

Intermittent Cranial Accelerometric Pulses - a Potential Marker of Neurodegenerative Disease

The paper identifies Intermittent Cranial Accelerometric Pulses (SBs) as a novel phenomenon during sleep, showing reduced frequency in neurodegenerative disease patients compared to controls.

Sleep and emotional memory: translating neural response at encoding to memory accuracy in men and women with and without PTSD

The paper examines how sleep stages and PTSD status affect emotional memory accuracy through neural responses to visual stimuli in men and women.

Sleep spindles favor emotion regulation over memory consolidation of stressors in PTSD

The paper investigates how NREM sleep spindles affect emotion regulation and memory consolidation in PTSD after stress exposure, finding increased spindles correlate with reduced anxiety but poorer memory recall.