Giulio Bernardi
@giuliobernardi.bsky.social
Associate Professor at IMT School (Lucca, Italy)
Investigating experience-dependent plasticity, sleep, and dreams
PI of the Sleep, Plasticity, And Conscious Experience (SPACE) Lab
ERC-STG grant TweakDreams
Investigating experience-dependent plasticity, sleep, and dreams
PI of the Sleep, Plasticity, And Conscious Experience (SPACE) Lab
ERC-STG grant TweakDreams
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
The loss of consciousness during #sleep may be seen as an ecological disadvantage for wild animals. This article discusses sleep's importance and ubiquity across mammals, birds, and other species. academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...
Functional implications of sleeping little in the wild
Sensory systems enable awake animals to interact with their environment to acquire energy, avoid predators, and find mates. Paradoxically, animals ranging
academic.oup.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:42 PM
The loss of consciousness during #sleep may be seen as an ecological disadvantage for wild animals. This article discusses sleep's importance and ubiquity across mammals, birds, and other species. academic.oup.com/sleep/articl...
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
Entrained cortical delta–spindle activity, not periodic synchrony, prevents arousal by NREM thalamic bursts
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Entrained cortical delta–spindle activity, not periodic synchrony, prevents arousal by NREM thalamic bursts - Communications Biology
Thalamic bursts can awaken the cortex during wakefulness. Contrary to in-vitro–based assumptions, in-vivo NREM thalamic bursts lack rhythmic synchronization, and their failure to awaken the cortex ref...
www.nature.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Entrained cortical delta–spindle activity, not periodic synchrony, prevents arousal by NREM thalamic bursts
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
🚨 Preprint altert 🚨
**Opposite Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Mind-wandering With Eyes Open and Closed**
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Led by Esther Thielking and Luca Iemi!
**Opposite Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Mind-wandering With Eyes Open and Closed**
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Led by Esther Thielking and Luca Iemi!
January 26, 2026 at 6:54 AM
🚨 Preprint altert 🚨
**Opposite Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Mind-wandering With Eyes Open and Closed**
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Led by Esther Thielking and Luca Iemi!
**Opposite Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Mind-wandering With Eyes Open and Closed**
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Led by Esther Thielking and Luca Iemi!
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
Research shows the positive impact of #dreaming on #memory and #learning. This study experimentally induces #dreams focused on #remoteemotionalmemories. academic.oup.com/sleepadvance...
Experimentally inducing dreams of remote emotional memory
Abstract. People frequently dream of recent experiences, which may reflect the consolidation of memories in the sleeping brain. Many studies demonstrate th
academic.oup.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Research shows the positive impact of #dreaming on #memory and #learning. This study experimentally induces #dreams focused on #remoteemotionalmemories. academic.oup.com/sleepadvance...
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep.
But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations
👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations
👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
Aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in humans - Nature Communications
How aperiodic 1/f noise drives ripple activity in human brain and impacts on ripple detections is not fully understood. Here authors show that ripple detections should be driven by the 1/f noise, whic...
www.nature.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Ripple oscillations are central for memory and sleep.
But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations
👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
But ripple detection in humans remains challenging. Here we introduce a simulation approach in @natcomms.nature.com as common ripple detectors mainly pick up 1/f noise and not genuine oscillations
👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
Sequential coupling of sleep oscillations enables concept-neuron reactivation and supports information flow across the human hippocampal-cortical circuit https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.15.699122v1
January 18, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Sequential coupling of sleep oscillations enables concept-neuron reactivation and supports information flow across the human hippocampal-cortical circuit https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.15.699122v1
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📆 updated for 2026!
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
various computational neuroscience / MEEG / LFP short courses and summer schools
docs.google.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📆 updated for 2026!
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
Really thrilled that this paper led by @neurozz.bsky.social is now published in its final version in @elife.bsky.social!!
This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay!
elifesciences.org/articles/99931
This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay!
elifesciences.org/articles/99931
A unifying account of replay as context-driven memory reactivation
A context-driven memory model simulates a wide range of characteristics of waking and sleeping hippocampal replay, providing a new account of how and why replay occurs.
elifesciences.org
January 15, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Really thrilled that this paper led by @neurozz.bsky.social is now published in its final version in @elife.bsky.social!!
This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay!
elifesciences.org/articles/99931
This is a memory-focused (as opposed to RL-focused) account of the detailed characteristics of forward and backward awake and sleep replay!
elifesciences.org/articles/99931
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
MIT News article about our new paper providing a roadmap for using transcranial focused ultrasound for consciousness research: news.mit.edu/2026/new-too... (Original article here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41270981/)
This new tool could tell us how consciousness works
Transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive brain imaging tool, may help researchers gain knowledge about human consciousness.
news.mit.edu
January 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
MIT News article about our new paper providing a roadmap for using transcranial focused ultrasound for consciousness research: news.mit.edu/2026/new-too... (Original article here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41270981/)
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
Episodic memory consolidation by reactivation of human concept neurons during sleep reflects contents, not sequence of events https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.10.698827v1
January 11, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Episodic memory consolidation by reactivation of human concept neurons during sleep reflects contents, not sequence of events https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.10.698827v1
⏳ 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
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
If you are interested in learning more about sleep and dreams and live in the Boston area, there will be a symposium titled “Dream and Engineering” at #MIT on January 10-11, 2026. #dreams #research #Boston
dxe.framer.website
dxe.framer.website
Dream x Engineering Symposium
A gathering of world leaders in sleep and dream science exploring how we can influence dreaming with precision to improve well-being, accelerate learning, and treat clinical conditions.
dxe.framer.website
January 2, 2026 at 9:17 PM
If you are interested in learning more about sleep and dreams and live in the Boston area, there will be a symposium titled “Dream and Engineering” at #MIT on January 10-11, 2026. #dreams #research #Boston
dxe.framer.website
dxe.framer.website
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
Sleep and digital health in autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy new year to all !
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy new year to all !
An open science resource for accelerating scalable digital health research in autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions - Nature Neuroscience
This paper describes the Simons Sleep Project, an open resource designed to accelerate research into the sleep and daily behaviors of autistic children using synchronized recordings from multiple wear...
www.nature.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Sleep and digital health in autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy new year to all !
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy new year to all !
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
⚠️ New paper alert and what a way to end 2025! 🎉
Happy to share our story “Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals.” published today in Nature Neuroscience.
Sleeping dragons 🦎 and functional ultrasound!
Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eWJHb 1/8
Happy to share our story “Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals.” published today in Nature Neuroscience.
Sleeping dragons 🦎 and functional ultrasound!
Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eWJHb 1/8
Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals
Nature Neuroscience - Bergel et al. show that an infraslow rhythm connecting the brain and body during sleep is shared by lizards, mammals and birds, revealing an ancestral process and reshaping...
rdcu.be
December 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
⚠️ New paper alert and what a way to end 2025! 🎉
Happy to share our story “Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals.” published today in Nature Neuroscience.
Sleeping dragons 🦎 and functional ultrasound!
Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eWJHb 1/8
Happy to share our story “Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals.” published today in Nature Neuroscience.
Sleeping dragons 🦎 and functional ultrasound!
Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eWJHb 1/8
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
🚨 New paper in @pnas.org to end 2025 with a bang!🚨
Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
with Esteban Munoz-Musat, @arthurlecoz.bsky.social @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache
Illustration: Ana Yael.
1/n
Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
with Esteban Munoz-Musat, @arthurlecoz.bsky.social @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache
Illustration: Ana Yael.
1/n
December 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
🚨 New paper in @pnas.org to end 2025 with a bang!🚨
Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
with Esteban Munoz-Musat, @arthurlecoz.bsky.social @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache
Illustration: Ana Yael.
1/n
Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
with Esteban Munoz-Musat, @arthurlecoz.bsky.social @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache
Illustration: Ana Yael.
1/n
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲!
Join us at 4:00 pm CET for our final ESRS/SRS Joint Seminar of the year, marking the Winter Solstice.
🔗 Register here: https://ow.ly/2bzt50XN1ib
#ESRS #sleepscience
Join us at 4:00 pm CET for our final ESRS/SRS Joint Seminar of the year, marking the Winter Solstice.
🔗 Register here: https://ow.ly/2bzt50XN1ib
#ESRS #sleepscience
December 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲!
Join us at 4:00 pm CET for our final ESRS/SRS Joint Seminar of the year, marking the Winter Solstice.
🔗 Register here: https://ow.ly/2bzt50XN1ib
#ESRS #sleepscience
Join us at 4:00 pm CET for our final ESRS/SRS Joint Seminar of the year, marking the Winter Solstice.
🔗 Register here: https://ow.ly/2bzt50XN1ib
#ESRS #sleepscience
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
Infra-slow (<0.1 Hz) modulation of human brain pulsations in awake and sleep states https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.692942v1
December 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Infra-slow (<0.1 Hz) modulation of human brain pulsations in awake and sleep states https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.692942v1
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
⏳ 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
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧!
Do not miss this great opportunity to bring your research to the heart of the international sleep community at #SleepEurope2026
Guidelines & submission here: https://esrs.eu/sleep-congress/abstracts/
#ESRS
Do not miss this great opportunity to bring your research to the heart of the international sleep community at #SleepEurope2026
Guidelines & submission here: https://esrs.eu/sleep-congress/abstracts/
#ESRS
December 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧!
Do not miss this great opportunity to bring your research to the heart of the international sleep community at #SleepEurope2026
Guidelines & submission here: https://esrs.eu/sleep-congress/abstracts/
#ESRS
Do not miss this great opportunity to bring your research to the heart of the international sleep community at #SleepEurope2026
Guidelines & submission here: https://esrs.eu/sleep-congress/abstracts/
#ESRS
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
A hippocampal ‘sharp-wave sleep’ state that is dissociable from cortical sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A hippocampal ‘sharp-wave sleep’ state that is dissociable from cortical sleep - Nature Neuroscience
Through continuous multiday recordings in rats, the authors reveal that hippocampal sharp waves reflect sleep need and define a homeostatically regulated sleep state that enables the hippocampus to di...
www.nature.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A hippocampal ‘sharp-wave sleep’ state that is dissociable from cortical sleep
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
The EEGManyPipelines Dataset: Metascientific Data on 168 Independent Analyses of a Single EEG Dataset: https://osf.io/c4xwg
December 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The EEGManyPipelines Dataset: Metascientific Data on 168 Independent Analyses of a Single EEG Dataset: https://osf.io/c4xwg
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
"This research paves the way for future studies to explore the intricate connections between circadian rhythms, mental health, and immune function, potentially leading to innovative approaches in chronomedicine and personalised healthcare."
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Adaptive introgression in modern human circadian rhythm genes - npj Biological Timing and Sleep
npj Biological Timing and Sleep - Adaptive introgression in modern human circadian rhythm genes
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
"This research paves the way for future studies to explore the intricate connections between circadian rhythms, mental health, and immune function, potentially leading to innovative approaches in chronomedicine and personalised healthcare."
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
Out now in @commsbio.nature.com!
We studied brain-heart interactions during mind wandering and mind blanking.
Mind blanking is associated with a greater heart/brain decoupling, complicating the idea of an attentional switch between external & internal environments!
🧠🔄🫀🧪
We studied brain-heart interactions during mind wandering and mind blanking.
Mind blanking is associated with a greater heart/brain decoupling, complicating the idea of an attentional switch between external & internal environments!
🧠🔄🫀🧪
Multimodal analysis of spontaneous attentional state dynamics during sustained task performance reveals distinctive profiles of brain-heart interaction in mind-wandering and mind-blanking.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
When your heart isn’t in it anymore: cardiac correlates of task disengagement - Communications Biology
Multimodal analysis of spontaneous attentional state dynamics during sustained task performance reveals distinctive profiles of brain–heart interaction in mind-wandering and mind-blanking.
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Out now in @commsbio.nature.com!
We studied brain-heart interactions during mind wandering and mind blanking.
Mind blanking is associated with a greater heart/brain decoupling, complicating the idea of an attentional switch between external & internal environments!
🧠🔄🫀🧪
We studied brain-heart interactions during mind wandering and mind blanking.
Mind blanking is associated with a greater heart/brain decoupling, complicating the idea of an attentional switch between external & internal environments!
🧠🔄🫀🧪
Reposted by Giulio Bernardi
Sleep supports brain health partly by regulating fluid dynamics to clear waste. @ulvlarsen.bsky.social &co probe the relation between #sleep & fluid movement in the human #brain, finding that #SleepPressure & intensity have distinct effects on brain pulsations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3XQWCL6
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sleep supports brain health partly by regulating fluid dynamics to clear waste. @ulvlarsen.bsky.social &co probe the relation between #sleep & fluid movement in the human #brain, finding that #SleepPressure & intensity have distinct effects on brain pulsations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3XQWCL6