ERC Consolidator Grant · 2022
Harnessing the cognitive and neurophysiological processes characterising the sleep onset period
Sleep often escapes us when we need it or intrudes when we would prefer to stay awake. What if we could control when we fall asleep? While our understanding of sleep has rapidly grown, what happens during the wake to sleep transition remains mysterious, potentially due to the widespread assumption that we are either awake or asleep. The current standard is to define vigilance states through coarse, physiological criteria that are visually assessed on fixed, 30s-epochs. In this framework, the sleep onset period (SOP) typically corresponds to the first sleep stage. Yet, this classification in discrete sleep stages fails to account for the gradual, dynamic changes observed in the descent to…
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