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Toward a Real-time Access to Sleepers' Mental Content

NCT05452733 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2026-01-12

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Summary

Sleep is crucial for global cognitive functioning, but its exact functions and mechanisms are still poorly understood. Cognitive studies of sleep typically rely on linking electrophysiological changes measured during sleep with behavioral and neural changes collected in tasks performed during wakefulness. What concomitantly happens in the mind of sleeping subjects is often ignored, certainly because it is virtually inaccessible. Yet, major advances in the understanding of human behaviors have resulted from an integrated approach that combines both neural and cognitive measures of their ongoing mental processes. The goal of this study is to provide real-time measures of the cognitive processes occurring within sleep.

To prompt real-time access to the sleeping mind, investigators will use auditory stimulation in people with unique sleep peculiarities: sleepwalkers whose overt behaviours may enable to objectively visualize ongoing cognitive processes during non-REM (NREM) sleep.

Conditions

  • Memory Reactivation
  • Memory Consolidation
  • Sleepwalking

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

differences of behavior between sleepwalking and non sleepwalking patient

movement registry done by camera when low intensity sound are send to patient during sleep.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Isabelle Arnulf, MD PhD · APHP

  • Delphine Oudiette, PhD · Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
35 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-03-31
Primary Completion
2025-08-29
Completion
2025-08-29

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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