Rotem Falach @falach.bsky.social
@FalachRotem
Neuroscientist at @TelAvivUni @LabNir Interests: sleep 😴 computational neuroscience 👩💻 system neuroscience 🧠 || Former full-stack engineer & team leader
This work, published in #SLEEPAdvances, investigates the neurophysiological responses to closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep spindles academic.oup.com/sleepadvances/…
Sleep spindle abnormalities as neurophysiological biomarkers of Schizophrenia spectrum disorders: From cellular mechanisms and neural circuits to clinical implications - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Noradrenergic activation of the BLA facilitates memory specificity for similar events experienced close in time nature.com/articles/s4159…
Can we hear what's inside your head? 🧠→🎶 Our new paper in @PLOSBiology, led by Jong-Yun Park, presents an AI-based method to reconstruct arbitrary natural sounds directly from a person's brain activity measured with fMRI. doi.org/10.1371/journa…
This study establishes how aperiodic activity develops in localized brain regions and illuminates the development of prefrontal control during adolescence in the development of attention and memory. @cross_zachariah @NUFeinbergMed @NorthwesternU nature.com/articles/s4156…
Cortical activity upon awakening from sleep reveals consistent spatio-temporal gradients across sleep stages in human EEG: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…
Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep | Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…
Never underestimate the human capacity to complete 3 days of work in 45 minutes to meet a deadline
In a new Science study in mice, researchers report a group of neurons in the thalamus that increases its activity during sleep deprivation and promotes sleep recovery and depth. The findings suggest that these neurons are responsible for promoting sleep homeostasis. 📄:…
Thursday: moved to a new apartment. Also Thursday: gave my first 20-min research talk at the TAU Alzheimer’s Conference, showing new (unpublished!) results. Chaos? Yes. Worth it? Absolutely.

㊗️ our paper was finally accepted by Nature Communications! Data & paper are already accessible from here: DREAM: A Dream EEG and Mentation database osf.io/preprints/psya… Thanks all coauthors for contributing the data! It was a really long journey to arrive here...
Circadian biology may be the next frontier in cancer care. Patients with lung cancer who got chemo-immunotherapy before 11:30 AM had: 📉 53% lower risk of death 📆 Median overall survival: 33 vs. 19.5 months 📈 Improved treatment response Let’s break it down 🧵1/7
Iota oscillations survived peer review! I tried to keep this paper short and sweet, take a look 😊 journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…
Cortical closed-loop electrical stimulation can prevent pathological hippocampal-cortical communication and preserve long-term memory in focal epilepsy @dk2955 @AhnafRHassan @UCIEngineering @NeuroE_C @UCIrvine @UCI_EpiCenter nature.com/articles/s4159…
The Intersection of Psychedelics and Sleep: Exploring the Impacts on Sleep Architecture, Dream States, and Therapeutic Implications doi.org/10.1021/acspts…
Sleep need–dependent plasticity of a thalamic circuit promotes homeostatic recovery sleep science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
A time window for memory consolidation during NREM sleep revealed by cAMP oscillation: Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex…
🚨New in @CellCellPress We discovered that hippocampal replays in natural-scale environments are highly fragmented, not full-length. doi.org/10.1016/j.cell… 👇🧵
Neuron A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality cell.com/neuron/fulltex…
Online now: Locus coeruleus activation “resets” hippocampal event representations and separates adjacent memories dlvr.it/TLCV0d