Publications – Somnivore

Publications

Somnivore’s machine learning technology is
validated and peer reviewed. WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE ENABLED THE FOLLOWING RESEARCH

2025

Uthaug, M. V., Allocca, G., Havenith, M., Szabo, A., Rosas, F., & Ramaekers, J. G. (2025). Exploring the importance of bodyset for the psychedelic experience and beyond. Journal of Psychedelic Studies (published online ahead of print 2025).

Park, S., Heu, J., Scheldrup, G., Tisdale, R. K., Sun, Y., Haire, M., … & Kilduff, T. S. (2025). Trace amine-associated receptors (TAARs) 2-9 knockout mice exhibit reduced wakefulness and disrupted REM sleep. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1467964.

Tøien, Ø., Pittaras, E. C., Huang, Y. G., Brodersen, P. J. N., Allocca, G., Barnes, B. M., & Heller, H. C. (2025). Automated sleep scoring in hibernating and non-hibernating American black bears. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025.03.31.646262.

Timmermann, C., Sanders, J. W., Reydellet, D., Barba, T., Luan, L. X., Angona, Ó. S., Ona, G., Allocca, G., Smith, C. H., Daily, Z. G., Mason, N. L., Kloft-Heller, L., Kuchar, M., Janeckova, L., Palenicek, T., Erritzoe, D., Ramaekers, J. G., Carhart-Harris, R. L., & Uthaug, M. V. (2025). Exploring 5-MeO-DMT as a pharmacological model for deconstructed consciousness. Neuroscience of consciousness, 2025(1), niaf007.

2024

Keenan, R. J., Daykin, H., Metha, J., Cornthwaite-Duncan, L., Wright, D. K., Clarke, K., Oberrauch, S., Brian, M., Stephenson, S., Nowell, C. J., Allocca, G., Barnham, K. J., Hoyer, D., & Jacobson, L. H. (2024). Orexin 2 receptor antagonism sex-dependently improves sleep/wakefulness and cognitive performance in tau transgenic mice. British journal of pharmacology, 181(1), 87–106.

Tisdale, R. K., Sun, Y., Park, S., Ma, S. C., Haire, M., Allocca, G., Bruchas, M. R., Morairty, S. R., & Kilduff, T. S. (2024). Biological sex influences sleep phenotype in mice experiencing spontaneous opioid withdrawal. Journal of sleep research, 33(3), e14037.

van Hasselt, S. J., Coscia, M., Allocca, G., Vyssotski, A. L., & Meerlo, P. (2024). Seasonal variation in sleep time: jackdaws sleep when it is dark, but do they really need it?. Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 194(3), 335–345.

Wang, Y., Li, D., Widjaja, J., Guo, R., Cai, L., Yan, R., Ozsoy, S., Allocca, G., Fang, J., Dong, Y., Tseng, G. C., Huang, C., & Huang, Y. H. (2024). An EEG Signature of MCH Neuron Activities Predicts Cocaine Seeking. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024.03.27.586887.

van Hasselt, S. J., Coscia, M., Allocca, G., Vyssotski, A. L., & Meerlo, P. (2024). Sleep and Thermoregulation in Birds: Cold Exposure Reduces Brain Temperature but Has Little Influence on Sleep Time and Sleep Architecture in Jackdaws (Coloeus monedula). Biology, 13(4), 229.

Wang, Y., Li, D., Widjaja, J., Guo, R., Cai, L., Yan, R., Ozsoy, S., Allocca, G., Fang, J., Dong, Y., Tseng, G. C., Huang, C., & Huang, Y. H. (2024). An Electroencephalogram Signature of Melanin-Concentrating Hormone Neuron Activities Predicts Cocaine Seeking. Biological psychiatry, 96(9), 739–751.

Pittaras, E. C., Artal, J. M., Ajibola, G., Allocca, G., Bennett, M., Camargo, A., Carpio, A., Gessner, N., Hinton, M., Pizzitola, R., Tan, N., Zhang, E., Zhong, A., & Heller, H. C. (2024). Short term GABA antagonist treatment improves long term sleep quality, memory, and decision-making in a Down syndrome mouse model. Sleep, zsae300. Advance online publication.

2023

Bleakley, L. E., Keenan, R. J., Graven, R. D., Metha, J. A., Ma, S., Daykin, H., … & Jacobson, L. H. (2023). Altered EEG power spectrum, but not sleep-wake architecture, in HCN1 knockout mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 437, 114105.

van Hasselt, S. J., Epifani, L., Zantinge, D., Vitkute, K., Kas, M. J. H., Allocca, G., & Meerlo, P. (2023). A Study on REM Sleep Homeostasis in the Day-Active Tree Shrew (Tupaia belangeri): Cold-Induced Suppression of REM Sleep Is Not Followed by a Rebound. Biology, 12(4), 614.

2022

Guo, R., Wang, Y., Yan, R., Chen, B., Ding, W., Gorczyca, M. T., … & Huang, Y. H. (2022). Rapid eye movement sleep engages melanin-concentrating hormone neurons to reduce cocaine seeking. Biological Psychiatry.

Johnsson, R. D., Connelly, F., Gaviraghi Mussoi, J., Vyssotski, A. L., Cain, K. E., Roth, T. C., & Lesku, J. A. (2022). Sleep loss impairs cognitive performance and alters song output in Australian magpies. Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-11.

van Hasselt, S. J., Piersma, T., & Meerlo, P. (2022). Seasonal variation in rest-activity patterns in barnacle geese: are measurements of activity a good indicator of sleep-wake patterns?. The Journal of experimental biology, 225(20), jeb244177.

van Hasselt, S. J., Verhulst, S., Piersma, T., Rattenborg, N. C., & Meerlo, P. (2022). A comparison of continuous and intermittent EEG recordings in geese: How much data are needed to reliably estimate sleep–wake patterns?. Journal of sleep research, 31(3), e13525.

Keenan, R. J., Daykin, H., Chu, J., Cornthwaite‐Duncan, L., Allocca, G., Hoyer, D., & Jacobson, L. H. (2022). Differential sleep/wake response and sex differences following acute suvorexant, MK‐1064 and zolpidem administration in the rTg4510 mouse model of tauopathy. British Journal of Pharmacology.

Pittaras, E., Colas, D., Chuluun, B., Allocca, G., & Heller, C. (2022). Enhancing sleep after training improves memory in down syndrome model mice. Sleep, 45(4), zsab247.

2021

Sun, Y., Tisdale, R., Park, S., Ma, S. C., Heu, J., Haire, M., … & Kilduff, T. S. (2021). The development of sleep/wake disruption and cataplexy as hypocretin/orexin neurons degenerate in male vs. female orexin/tTA; TetO-DTA mice. bioRxiv.

Clark, J. W., Daykin, H., Metha, J. A., Allocca, G., Hoyer, D., Drummond, S. P., & Jacobson, L. H. (2021). Manipulation of rapid eye movement sleep via orexin and GABAA receptor modulators differentially affects fear extinction in mice: effect of stable versus disrupted circadian rhythm. Sleep, 44(9), zsab068.

van Hasselt, S. J., Mekenkamp, G. J., Komdeur, J., Allocca, G., Vyssotski, A. L., Piersma, T., … & Meerlo, P. (2021). Seasonal variation in sleep homeostasis in migratory geese: a rebound of NREM sleep following sleep deprivation in summer but not in winter. Sleep, 44(4), zsaa244.

van Hasselt, S. J., Hut, R. A., Allocca, G., Vyssotski, A. L., Piersma, T., Rattenborg, N. C., & Meerlo, P. (2021). Cloud cover amplifies the sleep-suppressing effect of artificial light at night in geese. Environmental Pollution, 273, 116444.

Das, N., Topalovic, M., & Janssens, W. (2021). AIM in Respiratory Disorders. In Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (pp. 1-14). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Watson, N. F., & Fernandez, C. R. (2021). Artificial intelligence and sleep: Advancing sleep medicine. Sleep medicine reviews, 59, 101512.

2020

Aulsebrook, A. E., Connelly, F., Johnsson, R. D., Jones, T. M., Mulder, R. A., Hall, M. L., … & Lesku, J. A. (2020). White and amber light at night disrupt sleep physiology in birds. Current Biology, 30(18), 3657-3663.

Connelly, F., Johnsson, R. D., Aulsebrook, A. E., Mulder, R. A., Hall, M. L., Vyssotski, A. L., & Lesku, J. A. (2020). Urban noise restricts, fragments, and lightens sleep in Australian magpies. Environmental Pollution, 267, 115484.

2019

Allocca, G., Ma, S., Martelli, D., Cerri, M., Del Vecchio, F., Bastianini, S., … & Gundlach, A. L. (2019). Validation of ‘Somnivore’, a machine learning algorithm for automated scoring and analysis of polysomnography data. Frontiers in neuroscience, 13, 207.

2017

Ma, S., Allocca, G., Ong-Pålsson, E. K., Singleton, C. E., Hawkes, D., McDougall, S. J., … & Gundlach, A. L. (2017). Nucleus incertus promotes cortical desynchronization and behavioral arousal. Brain Structure and Function, 222(1), 515-537.