A new episode of Great Exchanges (in collaboration with Portobello Radio) is now online! 📣 Lucy Wood from Grenfell NHS News joined Sara Wong, PhD & Berta Annucibay Soto from Imperial Life Sciences to discuss the need for sleep & how it effects our daily lives. 👉 ow.ly/AX9250SaMHn

Sneak peek into what to expect from the Sleep lab this weekend at Great Exhibition Road Festival ! 👀 Find us at Princes Garden 12-6pm 14th and 15th June!

The most amazing weekend for our Imperial Life Sciences Sleep lab at Great Exhibition Road Festival - can’t believe the amount of creativity from the kids designing dream bedrooms, learning how EEG works and why sleep is so important! UK Dementia Research Institute Imperial College London

When science & art collides: beautiful piece of art by Matt Dosa translated from a sleep #spectrogram (figure from Prerau et al., 2016) Top depicting a restful night’s sleep & bottom , fragmented sleep. #paintlab #exrdfest

New research from University of Surrey and UK DRI Care Research & Tech reveals using sound to stimulate certain brain waves has the potential to help those with dementia or cognitive decline sleep better. Read the full story in Medical Xpress⬇️ buff.ly/3VBcUWX

Had an amazing week of science at #FENS2024 , plenty of food for thought with the amazing quality of talks & posters all around. Also as a newbie into the sleep field, it was so good to put faces to names and I can’t wait to see where this field brings me 😊

Fresh in Current Biology , Wei Ba’s excellent research identifying a basal ganglia (!) circuitry (SOM neurones in the entopeduncular nucleus/GPi -> LHb -> VTA pathway ) which is REM active, and affects anxiety-like behaviour in mice! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

😴 Our Imperial Life Sciences scientists teamed up with Portobello Radio! Dr Sara Wong (Sara Wong, PhD) & Dr Berta Annucibay Soto shared insights on sleep! "Sleep is something everyone is familiar with but may not necessarily know how and why it is important" 👇 imperial.ac.uk/news/254573/gr…

Are you one of the next Young Producers? 🧡 Get paid to work with artists and Imperial College London researchers to create an experience combining art and science for #ImperialLates and #ExRdFest in 2025! Apply by 14 October 👉 ow.ly/TFOA50TiQ7c

Interesting new study by Prof Derk-Jan Dijk & Valeria Jaramillo finds brain waves can be manipulated whilst in REM sleep. The research could pave the way for a new approach to treat dementia, by speeding up brain activity which becomes slower during REM👉buff.ly/4en8riB

Getting a good night's sleep could be key to a full recovery after a heart attack. Integrating sleep evaluations and sleep-hygiene practices into clinical care will be crucial for improving cardiac healing, says Rachel Rowe. go.nature.com/3C5Z20Z

Very pleased to have receive a pilot grant to investigate the potential of REM sleep as an early biomarker for dementia! Thank you for the opportunity 🙌🏼

Finally part of the PhD published - a long time coming. We investigated the ability of a novel cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) conjugated to oxytocin or insulin to bypass an in vitro nasal barrier (it does!) for intranasal application down the line. mdpi.com/1999-4923/16/1…

Cat ears EEG was a big hit! If anyone in the U.K. is keen to promote science outreach re sleep for children (and even adults!) , feel free to get in touch with me ☺️

Had a great time at Parliament this morning with Mathieu discussing all about the importance of sleep and the our research into the links and mechanisms of poor sleep with dementia! Thank you for having us UK Dementia Research Institute 😊

We uncovered how a positive experience strengthens memory. During learning and NREM sleep, the amyg. and a cortical top-down circuit coordinate their activities, enhancing perceptual memory. Congrats to all authors, especially Yoshihito Saito, great work! doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

New preprint now online! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We created an algorithm to detect NREM sleep micro-arousals and used it to re-analyze LFP data from the motor cortex of sleeping mice 💤 This is what we found:

BlueBerry: Closed-loop wireless optogenetic manipulation in freely moving animals biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci

Our new paper is out in Cell Reports We show an inhibitory response of Orexin receptor type 2 (Ox2R) in a subset of MCH neurons. doi.org/10.1016/j.celr…

Excited to share our latest review on genetically encoded dopamine sensors! 🔬 Dive into the principles, applications, and future directions of these innovative tools in neuroscience. Read more: authors.elsevier.com/a/1keV38MqMiuK…