Martin Dresler
@dresler.bsky.social
PI @ Donders Sleep & Memory Lab, studying functions of sleep. Also brain hacks incl. lucid dreaming, polyphasic sleep, mnemonics. http://dreslerlab.org
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Martin Dresler
@dresler.bsky.social
· Oct 20
Neuroscience of Dreaming
Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy
Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy
Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
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The registration for the 1st Conference on Music and Sleep is now open! 🎶💤
Early bird registration open until the 15/03 📆
Follow the link for info on fees and deadlines!
#confmussleep #musicscience
Early bird registration open until the 15/03 📆
Follow the link for info on fees and deadlines!
#confmussleep #musicscience
🎶💤 Registration for the 1st #ConfMusSleep in Aarhus, DK is now open!
🕒 Early-bird: until 15/03/26
🕒 Regular: 16/03–26/04/26
👉 For registration link, fees and deadlines: musicinthebrain.au.dk/internationa...
#musicscience
🕒 Early-bird: until 15/03/26
🕒 Regular: 16/03–26/04/26
👉 For registration link, fees and deadlines: musicinthebrain.au.dk/internationa...
#musicscience
January 9, 2026 at 12:04 PM
The registration for the 1st Conference on Music and Sleep is now open! 🎶💤
Early bird registration open until the 15/03 📆
Follow the link for info on fees and deadlines!
#confmussleep #musicscience
Early bird registration open until the 15/03 📆
Follow the link for info on fees and deadlines!
#confmussleep #musicscience
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⏳ 1 week left to register for the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, Lucca 🇮🇹)!
A great program on the latest advances in the neuroscience of consciousness during sleep, plus opportunities for oral/poster presentations and project networking.
👉 Info: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
A great program on the latest advances in the neuroscience of consciousness during sleep, plus opportunities for oral/poster presentations and project networking.
👉 Info: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
Neuroscience of Dreaming
Although dreams have fascinated humankind since the earliest ages, their rigorous, scientific study is a rather new development, and has taken on considerable momentum in recent years. Far from being ...
nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
January 9, 2026 at 12:01 AM
⏳ 1 week left to register for the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, Lucca 🇮🇹)!
A great program on the latest advances in the neuroscience of consciousness during sleep, plus opportunities for oral/poster presentations and project networking.
👉 Info: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
A great program on the latest advances in the neuroscience of consciousness during sleep, plus opportunities for oral/poster presentations and project networking.
👉 Info: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
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😴 Our new review on non-invasive sleep stimulation in Physiological Reviews! Huge thanks to my shared first co-author Friederike Breuer, to Til Ole Bergmann & Martin Dresler for their supervision, and to all co-authors for an inspiring collaboration ✨
#SleepResearch #Donders
#SleepResearch #Donders
Hacking the functions of sleep: Non-invasive approaches to stimulate sleep neurophysiology | Physiological Reviews | American Physiological Society
Sleep is essentially contributing to human health and wellbeing through multiple biological functions, including restoration and biosynthesis, brain clearance, energy metabolism, immunological and end...
journals.physiology.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM
😴 Our new review on non-invasive sleep stimulation in Physiological Reviews! Huge thanks to my shared first co-author Friederike Breuer, to Til Ole Bergmann & Martin Dresler for their supervision, and to all co-authors for an inspiring collaboration ✨
#SleepResearch #Donders
#SleepResearch #Donders
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Apply now: 1 Postdoc + 1 PhD position, Anderson-Wagner group @univie.ac.at Focus: gut microbial effects on hippocampus & memory 🧠🦠
#PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition
Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology
PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe
#PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition
Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology
PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe
January 8, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Apply now: 1 Postdoc + 1 PhD position, Anderson-Wagner group @univie.ac.at Focus: gut microbial effects on hippocampus & memory 🧠🦠
#PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition
Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology
PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe
#PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs #PhDposition
Postdoc Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... > Psychology
PhD Ad: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p... > CoBeNe
"I learned how to control my dreams to better my mental health. Here’s how."
www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/ho...
www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/ho...
I learned how to control my dreams to better my mental health. Here’s how | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Lucid dreaming has all manner of benefits, from honing your skills to defeating PTSD - if you can learn to control it
www.sciencefocus.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:42 PM
"I learned how to control my dreams to better my mental health. Here’s how."
www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/ho...
www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/ho...
Why the memory palace is mightier than the memory pharmacy:
Mnemonic strategies considerably outperform pharmacological strategies of cognitive enhancement by providing cognitive tools that change the affordances of the learning task.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mnemonic strategies considerably outperform pharmacological strategies of cognitive enhancement by providing cognitive tools that change the affordances of the learning task.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Why the memory palace is mightier than the memory pharmacy:
Mnemonic strategies considerably outperform pharmacological strategies of cognitive enhancement by providing cognitive tools that change the affordances of the learning task.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mnemonic strategies considerably outperform pharmacological strategies of cognitive enhancement by providing cognitive tools that change the affordances of the learning task.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🧠💤 #Sleep is crucial for the production of #antibodies, the #clearing of harmful substances from the brain, and the release of #growthhormone. 👶🧒 Some recent examples of sleep benefits according to @dresler.bsky.social. Read the full article here: 👇
www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
Why we sleep: insights from current research | Radboud University
In the sleep lab of Martin Dresler, scientists work every day to piece together the scientific puzzle of sleep. We spend roughly a third of our lives asleep, switching off for eight hours makes any or...
www.ru.nl
December 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🧠💤 #Sleep is crucial for the production of #antibodies, the #clearing of harmful substances from the brain, and the release of #growthhormone. 👶🧒 Some recent examples of sleep benefits according to @dresler.bsky.social. Read the full article here: 👇
www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
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⏳ One month left to register for the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)!
👉 Register by January 15: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
#dreamresearch #sleepresearch #sleepscience #neuroscience
👉 Register by January 15: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
#dreamresearch #sleepresearch #sleepscience #neuroscience
Neuroscience of Dreaming
Although dreams have fascinated humankind since the earliest ages, their rigorous, scientific study is a rather new development, and has taken on considerable momentum in recent years. Far from being ...
nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
December 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
⏳ One month left to register for the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)!
👉 Register by January 15: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
#dreamresearch #sleepresearch #sleepscience #neuroscience
👉 Register by January 15: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
#dreamresearch #sleepresearch #sleepscience #neuroscience
Come work with us - as the scientific director of the >1000 neuroscientists at the Donders Institute:
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Scientific Director Donders Institute | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Scientific Director Donders Institute at the Donders Institute? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Come work with us - as the scientific director of the >1000 neuroscientists at the Donders Institute:
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century:
1. Dream engineering
"For years, trying to convince scientists to take dreams seriously was a nightmare. Now the tide has turned ..."
www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...
1. Dream engineering
"For years, trying to convince scientists to take dreams seriously was a nightmare. Now the tide has turned ..."
www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...
The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century (so far), picked by the world’s top thinkers | BBC Science Focus Magazine
We're a quarter of the way into the new century. To mark this milestone, we asked the UK's top minds to highlight some of the game-changing scientific breakthroughs shaping our world since the year 20...
www.sciencefocus.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The 25 most powerful ideas of the 21st century:
1. Dream engineering
"For years, trying to convince scientists to take dreams seriously was a nightmare. Now the tide has turned ..."
www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...
1. Dream engineering
"For years, trying to convince scientists to take dreams seriously was a nightmare. Now the tide has turned ..."
www.sciencefocus.com/future-techn...
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We are currently looking for participants for an online survey on spatial experience of music when going to sleep. If you are interested and are over 18, click the link and listen to some music to help us out! The survey lasts around 15 minutes in total.
z9j3c1atbx.cognition.run
#Musicscience
z9j3c1atbx.cognition.run
#Musicscience
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We are currently looking for participants for an online survey on spatial experience of music when going to sleep. If you are interested and are over 18, click the link and listen to some music to help us out! The survey lasts around 15 minutes in total.
z9j3c1atbx.cognition.run
#Musicscience
z9j3c1atbx.cognition.run
#Musicscience
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Junior or mid-career group leaders working in neuroscience, apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network! We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars, committed to exchanging scientific ideas & contributing to improve Neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur
Application procedure – FKNE
rb.gy
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Junior or mid-career group leaders working in neuroscience, apply by 30 Jan to join the FENS-Kavli Network! We are looking for excellent and engaged future scholars, committed to exchanging scientific ideas & contributing to improve Neuroscience in Europe. rb.gy/havqur
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Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Disrupted Sleep: Mechanisms Linking Sleep Deprivation, Neurovascular Dysfunction, and Metabolic Pathways at Leeds Beckett University, listed on FindAPhD.com
tinyurl.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Please repost! Fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunity on sleep deprivation and neurovascular dysfunction on the BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership, including annual stipend, research costs and home tuition fees tinyurl.com/ms7v2pcx
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🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Postdoc Position: Neural Circuitry Underlying Working Memory at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.
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I am now a Recommender (similar to Action Editor) at @pci-regreports.bsky.social. If you have any Registered Reports in the area of Sleep and Dreaming, I'd be very happy to take them on! #sleeppeeps
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PCI Registered Reports
Peer Community in Registered Reports
rr.peercommunityin.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I am now a Recommender (similar to Action Editor) at @pci-regreports.bsky.social. If you have any Registered Reports in the area of Sleep and Dreaming, I'd be very happy to take them on! #sleeppeeps
rr.peercommunityin.org/about/recomm...
rr.peercommunityin.org/about/recomm...
Fly around or make out with your crush: how to start lucid dreaming
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Fly around or make out with your crush: how to start lucid dreaming
We asked experts to share tips on how to take control of dreams once you realize you’re in it
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Fly around or make out with your crush: how to start lucid dreaming
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Neuroscience of Dreaming
Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy
Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy
Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
October 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Neuroscience of Dreaming
Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy
Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
Summer School - May 4-8, 2026 - Lucca, Italy
Applications open: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
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Junior Researcher position (16 months) available on fMRI analysis in my lab! Apply www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring
We are hiring! — Semantic memory Lab
www.genzellab.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Junior Researcher position (16 months) available on fMRI analysis in my lab! Apply www.genzellab.com/we-are-hiring
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🎶🛏️ Call for contributions!
The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral).
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.
More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk
#confmussleep #musicscience
The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral).
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.
More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk
#confmussleep #musicscience
October 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🎶🛏️ Call for contributions!
The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral).
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.
More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk
#confmussleep #musicscience
The 1st International Conference on Music and Sleep is now open for abstract submissions (poster & oral).
Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.
More info 👉 confmussleep.au.dk
#confmussleep #musicscience
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NEMO museum in Amsterdam is located in a fantastic futuristic building, which looks like a spacecraft departing into the future
NEMO team also does a lot for science communication with their online journal
Some time ago, I gave them a short comment on the current sleep-enhancement technology
NEMO team also does a lot for science communication with their online journal
Some time ago, I gave them a short comment on the current sleep-enhancement technology
Hersenhacken voor een diepe slaap
Een goede nachtrust komt zowel ons brein, als ons lichaam ten goede. Wetenschappers werken daarom aan methodes om onze diepe slaap te ‘hacken’. Wat mogen we daarvan de komende tijd verwachten?
www.nemokennislink.nl
September 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
NEMO museum in Amsterdam is located in a fantastic futuristic building, which looks like a spacecraft departing into the future
NEMO team also does a lot for science communication with their online journal
Some time ago, I gave them a short comment on the current sleep-enhancement technology
NEMO team also does a lot for science communication with their online journal
Some time ago, I gave them a short comment on the current sleep-enhancement technology
Sleep and dreams as reflected by science fiction literature and films - anything to learn from?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Journal of Sleep Research</em> | ESRS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Sleep and dreams are frequent themes in science fiction (Sci-Fi) literature and films, often used to explore questions about consciousness, reality, technology and the human experience. Sci-Fi author...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Sleep and dreams as reflected by science fiction literature and films - anything to learn from?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🧠 The official website of the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, IMT School, Lucca, Italy) is now live: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
👉 Check out the confirmed speakers + our program overview. Detailed schedule and registration coming soon!
👉 Check out the confirmed speakers + our program overview. Detailed schedule and registration coming soon!
September 14, 2025 at 6:20 AM
🧠 The official website of the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, IMT School, Lucca, Italy) is now live: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it
👉 Check out the confirmed speakers + our program overview. Detailed schedule and registration coming soon!
👉 Check out the confirmed speakers + our program overview. Detailed schedule and registration coming soon!
17,058 proposals received, 1,650 to be funded.
Break-even, where more money is paid out than burned by the process, is ~2 months time investment per application (assuming only few admin/review/non-submitted efforts).
Uncomfortably close to predatory territory: doi.org/10.1111/imcb...
Break-even, where more money is paid out than burned by the process, is ~2 months time investment per application (assuming only few admin/review/non-submitted efforts).
Uncomfortably close to predatory territory: doi.org/10.1111/imcb...
September 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
17,058 proposals received, 1,650 to be funded.
Break-even, where more money is paid out than burned by the process, is ~2 months time investment per application (assuming only few admin/review/non-submitted efforts).
Uncomfortably close to predatory territory: doi.org/10.1111/imcb...
Break-even, where more money is paid out than burned by the process, is ~2 months time investment per application (assuming only few admin/review/non-submitted efforts).
Uncomfortably close to predatory territory: doi.org/10.1111/imcb...
Disturbed sleep is a leading symptom and likely causal factor for the development of psychiatric diseases such as mood disorders.
Here we review how sleep is altered in depression, and discuss the role of sleep for therapeutic approaches:
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
Here we review how sleep is altered in depression, and discuss the role of sleep for therapeutic approaches:
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
Sleep Neurophysiology in Depression
Sleep disturbances are both a primary symptom of and risk factor for major depressive
disorder (MDD). Sleep alterations in MDD include the presence of insomnia or hypersomnia
and aberrations in sleep ...
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Disturbed sleep is a leading symptom and likely causal factor for the development of psychiatric diseases such as mood disorders.
Here we review how sleep is altered in depression, and discuss the role of sleep for therapeutic approaches:
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
Here we review how sleep is altered in depression, and discuss the role of sleep for therapeutic approaches:
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
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If you are at #WorldSleep25 and interested in Dreaming, come by my Poster 75 at 5.30 today! Also happy to chat about any other of my interests, such as infant sleep, gut microbiota, and so on, at the poster or over a tea! #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If you are at #WorldSleep25 and interested in Dreaming, come by my Poster 75 at 5.30 today! Also happy to chat about any other of my interests, such as infant sleep, gut microbiota, and so on, at the poster or over a tea! #sleeppeeps @dresler.bsky.social