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Overview

Björn Rasch is affiliated with the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with significant contributions in cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue

Rasch's recent publications cover various aspects of sleep, memory, and cognitive processes. Notable papers include:

  • How robust are sleep-mediated memory benefits? (2020) published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology
  • Episodic memory consolidation during sleep in healthy aging (2020) published in Sleep Medicine Reviews
  • Pre-sleep social media use does not strongly disturb sleep: a sleep laboratory study in healthy young participants (2021) published in Sleep Medicine
  • HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS GIVEN BEFORE NIGHTTIME SLEEP EXTEND SLOW-WAVE SLEEP AS COMPARED TO A CONTROL TEXT IN HIGHLY HYPNOTIZABLE SUBJECTS (2020) published in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
  • Stress dynamically reduces sleep depth: temporal proximity to the stressor is crucial (2022) published in Cerebral Cortex

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Maren Jasmin Cordi
  • Jonas Beck
  • Sandrine Baselgia
  • Selina Ladina Combertaldi
  • Alexander Ort

Rasch has published multiple articles in several key journals, including:

  • Journal of Sleep Research
  • SLEEP
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Communications Biology

Regarding book publications, Björn Rasch has authored works published by Springer Nature and Hogrefe Verlag, including:

  • Hypnose in Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Medizin (2023) published by Springer Nature
  • Schlaf: Rasch erklärt (2021) published by Hogrefe Verlag

Best Publications

  • About sleep's role in memory

    Bjoern Rasch;Jan Born;Jan Born

  • Odor cues during slow-wave sleep prompt declarative memory consolidation.

    Björn Rasch;Christian Büchel;Steffen Gais;Jan Born

  • Sleep to Remember

    Jan Born;Björn Rasch;Steffen Gais

  • Returning the tables: language affects spatial reasoning

    Stephen C Levinson;Sotaro Kita;Daniel B.M Haun;Björn H Rasch

  • Frontal theta activity reflects distinct aspects of mental fatigue.

    Edmund Wascher;Björn Rasch;Jessica Sänger;Sven Hoffmann

  • Labile or Stable: Opposing Consequences for Memory when Reactivated during Waking and Sleep

    Susanne Diekelmann;Christian Büchel;Jan Born;Björn Rasch

  • Brief sleep after learning keeps emotional memories alive for years.

    Ullrich Wagner;Manfred Hallschmid;Björn Rasch;Jan Born

  • Maintaining memories by reactivation

    Björn Rasch;Jan Born

  • Pharmacological REM sleep suppression paradoxically improves rather than impairs skill memory

    Björn Rasch;Julian Pommer;Susanne Diekelmann;Jan Born

  • Differential effects of non-REM and REM sleep on memory consolidation?

    Sandra Ackermann;Björn Rasch;Björn Rasch

  • Precise Slow Oscillation-Spindle Coupling Promotes Memory Consolidation in Younger and Older Adults.

    Beate E. Muehlroth;Myriam C. Sander;Yana Fandakova;Thomas H. Grandy

  • Offline consolidation of memory varies with time in slow wave sleep and can be accelerated by cuing memory reactivations.

    Susanne Diekelmann;Simon Biggel;Bjoern Rasch;Jan Born;Jan Born

  • The sleeping child outplays the adult's capacity to convert implicit into explicit knowledge

    Ines Wilhelm;Ines Wilhelm;Michael Rose;Kathrin I Imhof;Björn Rasch

  • Quantification of Phase-Amplitude Coupling in Neuronal Oscillations: Comparison of Phase-Locking Value, Mean Vector Length, Modulation Index, and Generalized-Linear-Modeling-Cross-Frequency-Coupling

    Mareike J Hülsemann;Ewald Naumann;Björn Rasch

  • A genetic variation of the noradrenergic system is related to differential amygdala activation during encoding of emotional memories

    B. Rasch;K. Spalek;S. Buholzer;R. Luechinger

  • Boosting Vocabulary Learning by Verbal Cueing During Sleep

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  • Combined Blockade of Cholinergic Receptors Shifts the Brain from Stimulus Encoding to Memory Consolidation

    Björn H. Rasch;Jan Born;Steffen Gais

  • Sleep enhances exposure therapy

    Birgit Kleim;F H Wilhelm;L Temp;J Margraf

  • Auditory feedback blocks memory benefits of cueing during sleep

    Thomas Schreiner;Thomas Schreiner;Mick Lehmann;Björn Rasch;Björn Rasch

  • Reactivating memories during sleep by odors: Odor specificity and associated changes in sleep oscillations

    Julia S. Rihm;Susanne Diekelmann;Jan Born;Björn Rasch

  • Genetic Evidence for a Role of CREB in Sustained

    Laurel A. Graves;Kevin Hellman;Sigrid Veasey;Julie A. Blendy

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Born
Jan Born University of Tübingen
Dominique J.-F. de Quervain
Dominique J.-F. de Quervain University of Basel
Andreas Papassotiropoulos
Andreas Papassotiropoulos University of Basel
Malte Friese
Malte Friese Saarland University
Erich Seifritz
Erich Seifritz University of Zurich
Yee Lee Shing
Yee Lee Shing Goethe University Frankfurt
Markus Werkle-Bergner
Markus Werkle-Bergner Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Steffen Gais
Steffen Gais University of Tübingen
Christian F. Doeller
Christian F. Doeller Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Reto Huber
Reto Huber University of Zurich

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