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Fosco Bernasconi

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Neuroscientist at EPFL - Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne https://fbernasconi.netlify.app/

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Sleep-like slow waves during wakefulness uncover a malignant form of Parkinson’s disease Slow waves during sleep are fundamental for neural homeostasis, metabolic regulation, and waste clearance, and are known to be altered in neurodegenerative diseases. Sleep-like slow waves (SLSW) have ...

We explored those questions:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

with @thomasandrillon.bsky.social Juan Carlos Farah Isabelle Arnulf, Sophie Schwartz, Jevita Potheegadoo, Saul Martinez-Horta, Javier Pagonabarraga, Jaime Kulisevsky, Olaf Blanke

08.09.2025 15:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sleep-like slow waves during wakefulness uncover a malignant form of Parkinson’s disease Slow waves during sleep are fundamental for neural homeostasis, metabolic regulation, and waste clearance, and are known to be altered in neurodegenerative diseases. Sleep-like slow waves (SLSW) have ...

Slow waves during sleep are fundamental for neural homeostasis and are impaired in neurodegenerative diseases. But what about sleep-like slow waves during wakefulness? Are these slow waves altered in Parkinson's disease? Are these slow waves uncovering psychosis?

08.09.2025 15:09 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
OSF

After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨
osf.io/preprints/ps...

23.07.2025 14:18 — 👍 129    🔁 35    💬 4    📌 4
Open positions

We are hiring! We have open PhD and postdoc positions in Bern. Join us to study sleep/wake circuits, and/or auditory functions with iEEG/EEG #iEEG #Neurojobs

Postdoc: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...
PhD: neuro.inf.unibe.ch/menu/announc...

21.07.2025 08:39 — 👍 16    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

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