Dimitri Van De Ville presented “Dynamics of Functional Brain Networks Altered by NREM Sleep Stages” at the Annual Congress of the Swiss Society for Sleep Research, Sleep Medicine and Chronobiology (SSSSC), held at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich on August 20-21, 2026. The talk featured in the “Multidimensional Sleep (Basic Research)” session, chaired by Reto Huber and Caroline Lustenberger. It revisited the lab’s work using innovation-driven co-activation patterns on simultaneous EEG-fMRI recordings during sleep, showing how large-scale network activity peaks during NREM stage 2 while the co-occurences between networks progressively break down as sleep deepens. This work was part of Anjali Tarun’s PhD thesis in collaboration with the lab of Sophie Schwartz and Virginie Sterpenich.

Reference: Tarun A., Wainstein-Andriano D., Sterpenich V., Bayer L., Perogamvros L., Solms M., Axmacher N., Schwartz S., Van De Ville D. NREM sleep stages specifically alter dynamical integration of large-scale brain networks. iScience 24(1):101923, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101923