Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TweakDreams (Tweaking dreams: non-invasive modulation of the level and content of mental activity during sleep)
Período documentado: 2021-05-01 hasta 2022-10-31
The TweakDreams project aims at progressing towards a deep understanding of the mechanisms that regulate sleep at a local level. At the core of the proposal is the idea that particular sensory-stimulation protocols may allow to directly modulate sleep intensity in a local, region-specific manner. Such approaches could be used to non-invasively perturbate regional sleep-related brain activity, thus allowing to investigate the causal consequences on sleep mentation, subjective sleep depth, and sleep-related functions, including learning and memory. Of note, the same approaches could also find application in counteracting alterations of local sleep regulation in pathological conditions.
Knowledge gathered within the project could yield potential breakthroughs in numerous key applications of clinical, social, and economic interest including treatment of sleep disorders and prevention of sleepiness-related accidents.