Clinical applications

Stress-related disorders

Pereira M, Terpstra N, Rutiku R, Sandberg K, Dresler M, Krause F. Neural correlates of nightmares revisited: findings from large-scale fMRI cohorts. bioRxiv [preprint]

Tzioridou S, Campillo-Ferrer T, Cañas-Martín J, Schlüter L, Torres-Platas SG, Gott JA, Soffer-Dudek N, Stumbrys T, Dresler M. The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2025, 169: 106011. [pdf]

Rosenblum Y, Bovy L, Weber FD, Steiger A, Zeising M, Dresler M. Increased aperiodic neural activity during sleep in major depressive disorder. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science 2023, 3: 1021–1029. [pdf]

Bovy L, Weber FD, Tendolkar I, Fernández G, Czisch M, Steiger A, Zeising M, Dresler M. Non-REM sleep in major depressive disorder. NeuroImage: Clinical 2022, 36: 103275. [pdf]

Tzioridou S, Dresler M, Sandberg K, Mueller EM. The role of mindful acceptance and lucid dreaming in nightmare frequency and distress. Scientific Reports 2022, 12: 15737 [pdf]

Repantis D, Wermuth K, Tsamitros N, Danker-Hopfe H, Bublitz JC, Kühn S, Dresler M. REM sleep in acutely traumatized individuals and interventions for the secondary prevention of post-traumatic stress disorder. European Journal of Psychotraumatology 2020, 11: 1740492. [pdf]

Genzel L, Dresler M, Cornu M, Jäger E, Konrad B, Adamczyk M, Friess E, Steiger A, Czisch M, Goya-Maldonado R. Medial prefrontal-hippocampal connectivity and motor memory consolidation in depression and schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 2015, 77: 177-186. [pdf]

Dresler M, Spoormaker VI, Beitinger PA, Czisch M, Kimura M, Steiger A, Holsboer F. Neuroscience-driven discovery and development of sleep therapeutics. Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2014, 141: 300-334.

Neurodegenerative diseases

van Hattem T, Verkaar L, Krugliakova E, Adelhöfer A, Zeising M, Drinkenburg WH, Claassen J, Bódizs R, Dresler M, Rosenblum Y. Targeting sleep physiology to modulate glymphatic brain clearance. Physiology 2025, 40: 271-190. [preprint] [pdf]

Rosenblum Y, Pereira M, Stange O, Weber FD, Bovy L, Tzioridou S, Lancini E, Neville DA, Klein N, de Wolff T, Stritzke M, Kersten I, Uhr M, Claassen JAHR, Steiger A, Verbeek MM, Dresler M. Divergent associations of slow-wave sleep vs. REM sleep with plasma amyloid-beta. Annals of Neurology 2024. [pdf]

Ngo HV, Claassen J, Dresler M. Sleep: slow wave activity predicts amyloid-β accumulation Current Biology 2020; 30: R1371-R1373. [pdf]

Ujma PP, Simor P, Steiger A, Dresler M, Bódizs R. Individual slow-wave morphology is a marker of aging. Neurobiology of Aging 2019, 80: 71-82. [pdf]