Methods

Sleep wearables

Sikder N, Verkaar L, Paltarzhytskaya A, Acan S, Bovy L, Almazova T, Krugliakova E, Rosenblum Y, Krauledat M, Dresler M, Zerr P. Wearanize+: a multimodal dataset for evaluating wearable technologies in sleep research. SLEEP Advances 2026 (in press) [pdf]

Esfahani MJ, Weber FD, Boon M, Anthes S, Almazova T, van Hal M, Keuren Y, Heuvelmans C, Simo E, Bovy L, Adelhofer N, ter Avest MM, Perslev M, ter Horst R, Harous C, Sundelin T, Axelsson J, Dresler M. Validation of the sleep EEG headband ZMax. bioRxiv [preprint]

Esfahani MJ, Sikder N, ter Horst, Weber FD, Daraie AH, Appel K, Bevelander KE, Dresler M. Citizen neuroscience: wearable technology and open software to study the human brain in its natural habitat. European Journal of Neuroscience 2024, 59: 948–965. [pdf]

Krugliakova E, Verkaar L, Paltarzhytskaya A, Serin S, Moradi S, Ferdinando H, Myllyla T, Rosenblum Y, Jongejan S, Talamini L, Sikder N, Claassen J, Dresler M. Measuring cerebral water oscillations during sleep with wearable functional near-infrared spectroscopy. OSF [registration]

Software

Sikder N, Zerr P, Esfahani MJ, Dresler M, Krauledat M. eegFloss: a Python package for refining sleep EEG recordings using machine learning models. arXiv [preprint] [github]

Zerr P. NIDRA: super simple sleep scoring. GitHub 2025. [github]

Coon WG, Zerr P, Milsap G, Sikder N, Smith M, Dresler M, Reid M. ezscore-f: a set of freely available, validated sleep stage classifiers for forehead EEG. bioRxiv [preprint] [github]

Esfahani MJ, Daraie AH, Zerr P, Weber FD, Dresler M. Dreamento: an open-source dream engineering toolbox for sleep EEG wearables. SoftwareX 2023, 24: 101595. [pdf] [github]

Sleep modulation

Krugliakova E, Breuer F, Adelhöfer N, Alonso A, Besedovsky L, Murphy K, Peters E, Raczek K, Rasch B, Salvesen L, Snipes S, Schoch S, Schreiner T, Wassing R, Bergmann TO, Dresler M: Hacking the functions of sleep: Non-invasive approaches to stimulate sleep neurophysiology. Physiological Reviews 2026, 106: 675–749. [pdf]

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]

Jafarzadeh Esfahani M, Farboud S, Ngo HVV, Schneider J, Weber FD, Talamini L, Dresler M. Closed-loop auditory stimulation of sleep slow oscillations: basic principles and best practices. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2023, 153: 105379. [pdf]