Yuval Nir

This study uses Casp3-mediated LC ablation in mice to show that progressive locus coeruleus degeneration causes REM sleep fragmentation and reduced state-dependent calcium activity.

This study shows that auditory cortical networks maintain stimulus representations after sensory input ends in both awake and sleeping mice, with different decay patterns in wakefulness and sleep.

This study identifies an early surge of norepinephrine in the pontine reticular nucleus as critical for sensory-evoked awakening, revealing circuit-specific roles of the locus coeruleus.

This study shows sleep reduces negative emotional generalization and enhances positive generalization, with neural correlates involving amygdala activity and sleep-spindle activity.

The paper investigates abrupt and gradual changes in neuronal processing during sleep onset and awakening in rats, finding abrupt increases in silent periods and gradual increases in population synchrony.

This study shows that mice exhibit auditory-induced alpha/beta event-related desynchronizations (ERDs) in cortical and thalamic regions, supporting their use as a model for studying perceptual processing.

This paper introduces a method to quantify memory retrieval through anticipatory eye gaze without verbal reports, showing its effectiveness across multiple experiments.

This paper identifies PdCO as a bistable GPCR with high temporal precision for optogenetic control of neural circuits in vivo.

The paper introduces a visual paired association learning paradigm to study memory consolidation during sleep and finds that naps improve recognition memory stability but not cued recall.

SleepEEGpy provides a Python package for sleep EEG data preprocessing, analysis, and visualization, offering a unified workflow for researchers.

The paper investigates how sleep deprivation affects neural processing in rat auditory cortex, finding sleep-like changes such as increased population synchrony and silent periods.

The paper investigates auditory processing during sleep using human epilepsy patients' recordings, finding robust neural responses despite reduced alpha-beta power, suggesting impaired top-down processing.

This study shows that propofol anesthesia concentration, not abrupt behavioral changes, linearly degrades auditory cortex responses in rats.

This study investigates how claustral projections to the anterior cingulate cortex influence engagement with the environment, finding that moderate activity optimizes behavior, while extremes lead to impulsive or lapsing actions.

This study shows that transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) in humans causes pupil dilation and reduces alpha oscillations, suggesting it mimics invasive VNS effects on arousal and neuromodulation.

This study investigates how anesthesia-induced loss of consciousness affects auditory processing by analyzing intracranial EEG and single-unit activity in patients, finding that higher-order auditory regions show more disruption than primary auditory cortex.

This study shows that locus-coeruleus norepinephrine activity determines the likelihood of sensory-evoked awakenings from sleep, with reduced activity during sleep suppressing responses to auditory stimuli.

This study shows that targeted memory reactivation during sleep improves memory for specific words associated with local brain activity, modulating slow wave activity in the cued hemisphere.

The paper examines how sleep affects neuronal responses to sounds in auditory and perirhinal cortices, finding greater attenuation in perirhinal cortex during NREM and REM sleep.