A selection of recent publications from the team.
REM sleep favors the restructuring of problem-related semantic associations. Bieth T, Decat N, Kenett YN, Scuccimarra M, Ovando-Tellez M, Lopez-Persem A, Lacaux C, Ben Younes S, Le Coz A, Moreno-Rodriguez S, Arnulf I, Volle E, Oudiette D. Communications Biology, June 2026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-10354-1.
Sleep-like slow waves during resting-state: A promising EEG biomarker of amyloid and neurodegeneration in preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Champetier P, Albero C, Raposo Pereira F, Herzog R, Chaumon M, Houot M, Locatelli M, Kas A, Habert MO, Teichmann M, Epelbaum S, Arnulf I, Oudiette D*, Andrillon T*, the INSIGHT-preAD group. Alzheimer's & Dementia, May 2026; 22:e71514. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.71514. *Co-last authors.
Dream-like mental states can occur during wakefulness. Decat N, Le Coz A, Sénéchal J, Scellier-Dekens I, de Verville H, Herzog R, Lejeune FX, Arnulf I, Andrillon T, Oudiette D. Cell Reports, April 2026; 45(4):117237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117237.
Intelligence quotient in adults with idiopathic hypersomnia and narcolepsy type 1. Zhuang E, Dodet P, Leu-Semenescu S, Chaumereuil C, Uguccioni G, Maranci JB, Gales AZ, Dudoignon B, Arnulf I. Sleep Medicine, January 2026; 140:108778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2026.108778.
Clinical and polysomnographic changes in idiopathic hypersomnia ten years after the diagnosis. Leu-Semenescu S, Maranci JB, Dudoignon B, Gales A, Sallansonnet-Froment M, Dodet P, Arnulf I. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, January 2026; 22:13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44470-025-00034-y.
Deciphering Insomnia: Benchmarking automated sleep staging algorithms for complex sleep disorders. Hanif U, Aloulou A, Crosbie F, Bouchequet P, Chennaoui M, Andrillon T, Leger D. Journal of Sleep Research, December 2025; 34(6):e70048. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.70048.
Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking. Munoz-Musat E, Le Coz A, Corcoran AW, Belloli L, Naccache L, Andrillon T. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2025; 122(52). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2510262122.
Sleeping with your eyes open: a fortuitous case of nocturnal lagophthalmos. Hoxhaj D, Arnulf I. Sleep Medicine, October 2025; 134:106679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2025.106679.
The Future of Parasomnias. Picard-Deland C, Cesari M, Stefani A, Maranci JB, Hogl B, Arnulf I. J Sleep Res., October 2025; 34(5):e70090. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.70090.
Sleep stage mixing is associated with poor prognosis in early Parkinson's disease. Dodet P, During E, Arnulf I, Trenkwalder C, Mollenhauer B, Sixel-Döring F, Roze E, Vidailhet M, Andrillon T, Lehericy S, Corvol JC, Mangone G, Leu-Semenescu S, Mignot E, Jennum P, Brink-Kjaer A. npj Parkinson's Disease, September 2025; 11:275. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-025-01105-w.
Rapid Eye Movements (REMs) during Non-REM Sleep as a Marker of Alpha-Synucleinopathies. Vargas Gonzalez E, Yang Z, Dodet P, Leu-Semenescu S, Brink-Kjaer A, Roujansky P, Jennum PJ, Lejeune FX, Vidailhet M, Arnulf I. Movement Disorders, August 2025; 40(8):1595–1603. https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.30211.
Kleine-Levin syndrome: mixed episodes with both hypersomnia and insomnia as a marker of severity. Al-Youssef S, Dodet P, Groos E, Leu-Semenescu S, Gales AZ, Meyrel M, Fossati P, Masset L, Maranci JB, Arnulf I. Sleep Medicine, June 2025; 133:106622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2025.106622.
A continuous approach to explain insomnia and subjective-objective sleep discrepancy. Herzog R, Crosbie F, Aloulou A, Hanif U, Chennaoui M, Léger D, Andrillon T. Communications Biology, March 2025; 8:423. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07794-6.
Talking to sleepwalkers? Response to communication efforts in disorders of arousal. Idir Y, Lopez R, Barbier A, Saint-Auret S, Morain E, Vollhardt R, Ben Haj Kacem I, Le Coz A, Gales A, Dodet P, Leu-Semenescu S, Dauvilliers Y, Arnulf I, Oudiette D. Sleep, February 2025; 48(2):zsae272. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsae272.
Iota oscillations (25–35 Hz) during wake and REM sleep in children and young adults. Snipes S. Journal of Neurophysiology, January 2025; 134(1):1–9. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00081.2025.
"I know when to stop": sentinels and counterstrategies against drowsy driving in narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia. Beguin E, Maranci JB, Leu-Semenescu S, Dodet P, Gales A, Oudiette D, Andrillon T, Arnulf I. Sleep, December 2024; 47(12):zsae168. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsae168.
Increased sighing during sleep as a marker of multiple system atrophy. Vargas Gonzalez E, Yang Z, Dodet P, Leu-Semenescu S, Londner C, Patout M, Straus C, Similowski T, Grabli D, Vidailhet M, Arnulf I. npj Parkinson's Disease, September 2024; 10:176. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-024-00765-4.
Isolated REM Sleep without Atonia Is Not Equivalent to REM Sleep Behavior Disorder in Early-Stage Parkinson's Disease. Dodet P, Houot M, Leu-Semenescu S, Gaurav R, Mangone G, Corvol JC, Lehéricy S, Vidailhet M, Roze E, Arnulf I. Movement Disorders, July 2024; 39(7):1190–1202. https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.29813.
Changes in semantic memory structure support successful problem-solving and analogical transfer. Bieth T, Kenett YN, Ovando-Tellez M, Lopez-Persem A, Lacaux C, Scuccimarra M, Maye I, Sénéchal J, Oudiette D*, Volle E*. Communications Psychology, June 2024; 2(1):54. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00100-w. *Co-senior authors.
Embracing sleep onset complexity. Lacaux C, Strauss M, Bekinschtein T, Oudiette D. Trends in Neurosciences, March 2024; 47(4):273–288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2024.02.002.
Sleep disorders in Parkinson's disease, an early and multiple problem. Dodet P, Houot M, Leu-Semenescu S, Corvol JC, Lehéricy S, Mangone G, Vidailhet M, Roze E, Arnulf I. npj Parkinson's Disease, February 2024; 10:46. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41531-024-00642-0.
What is sleep exactly? Global and local modulations of sleep oscillations all around the clock. Andrillon T, Oudiette D. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, December 2023; 155:105465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105465.
Behavioral and brain responses to verbal stimuli reveal transient periods of cognitive integration of the external world during sleep. Türker B*, Munoz Musat E*, Chabani E*, Fonteix-Galet A, Maranci JB, Wattiez N, Pouget P, Sitt J, Naccache L**, Arnulf I**, Oudiette D**. Nature Neuroscience, November 2023; 26(11):1981–1993. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01449-7. *Co-first authors; **Co-senior authors.
Idiopathic hypersomnia and Kleine-Levin syndrome. Arnulf I, Dodet P, Leu-Semenescu S, Maranci JB. Revue Neurologique (Paris), October 2023; 179(7):741–754. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurol.2023.08.010.
Pharmacological manipulations of physiological arousal and sleep-like slow waves modulate sustained attention. Pinggal E, Dockree PM, O'Connell RG, Bellgrove MA, Andrillon T. Journal of Neuroscience, October 2022; 42(43):8113–8124. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0836-22.2022.
Beyond traditional sleep scoring: Massive feature extraction and data-driven clustering of sleep time series. Decat N, Walter J, Koh ZH, Sribanditmongkol P, Fulcher BD, Windt JM, Andrillon T, Tsuchiya N. Sleep Medicine, October 2022; 98:39–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2022.06.013.
Eye movement patterns correlate with overt emotional behaviours in rapid eye movement sleep. Maranci JB, Nigam M, Masset L, Msika EF, Vionnet MC, Chaumereil C, Vidailhet M, Leu-Semenescu S, Arnulf I. Scientific Reports, February 2022; 12:1770. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05905-5.
Sleep onset is a creative sweet spot. Lacaux C, Andrillon T, Bastoul C, Idir Y, Fonteix-Galet A, Arnulf I, Oudiette D. Science Advances, December 2021; 7(50):eabj5866. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj5866.
Predicting lapses of attention with sleep-like slow waves. Andrillon T, Burns A, Mackay T, Windt J, Tsuchiya N. Nature Communications, June 2021; 12:3657. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23890-7.
Moving the dial on behavioral interventions for idiopathic hypersomnia. Nigam M, Leu-Semenescu S, Arnulf I. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, May 2022; 18(5):1473–1474. https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.9914.
Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep. Konkoly KR**, Appel K**, Chabani E**, Mangiaruga A**, Gott J**, Mallett R, Caughran B, Witkowski S, Whitmore NW, Mazurek CY, Berent JB, Weber FD, Türker B, Leu-Semenescu S, Maranci JB, Pipa G, Arnulf I*, Oudiette D*, Dresler M*, Paller KA*. Current Biology, April 2021; 31(7):1417–1427.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.026.