Publications
Sleep, cognition, aging and health
Articles
Sleep and Neurodegeneration: Examining Potential Physiological Mechanisms
McConnell BV, Deng Y, Lucey BP (2025). Current Sleep Medicine Reports 11(1) (review).
Mapping sleep's oscillatory events as a biomarker of Alzheimer's disease
Pulver RL, …, McConnell BV (2024). Alzheimer’s & Dementia 20(1): 301–315.
The Rise and Fall of Slow Wave Tides: Vacillations in Coupled Slow Wave/Spindle Pairing Shift the Composition of Slow Wave Activity in Accordance With Depth of Sleep
McConnell BV, et al. (2022). Frontiers in Neuroscience 16: 915934.
The aging slow wave: a shifting amalgam of distinct slow wave and spindle coupling subtypes define slow wave sleep across the human lifespan
McConnell BV, et al. (2021). Sleep 44(10): zsab125.
Feasibility of home-based automated transcranial electrical stimulation during slow wave sleep
McConnell BV, et al. (2019). Brain Stimulation 12(3): 813-815 (research letter).
Chapters
Sleep and Cognition
Grove DM, McConnell BV (2024). Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology.
Moving beyond sleep stage scoring epoch-by-epoch (other PSG/EEG characteristics and parameters)
McConnell BV, Ramos AR (2023). Encyclopedia of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms: 74-80.
Preprint
On Monitoring Brain Health from the Depths of Sleep: Feature Engineering and Machine Learning Insights for Digital Biomarker Development
McConnell BV, et al. (2024). bioRxiv (not peer reviewed).
Conference abstracts
Impact of Insufficient Sleep on Biomarkers of Neurodegeneration and Neuroinflammation in Healthy Adults
Kishman E, McConnell B, et al. (2025). SLEEP 48(Suppl. 1): A42-A43.
Subjective sleep disturbances are not associated with objective cognitive functional impairment in Parkinson’s disease (4647)
Holden S, McConnell B, Broussard J, Berman B (2021). Neurology 96(15 Suppl.): 4647.
Analysis of Theta Bursts and Slow Spindles During Sleep: Insights Into the Phase Coupling Memory Consolidation Model
Kaplan RI, Kronberg E, Teale P, McConnell B (2019). ANPA Annual Meeting, abstract P47.
Development of an Automated System to Apply Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation for Modulation of Sleep
McConnell B, Teale P, Kronberg E, Kluger B (2017). ANPA Annual Meeting, abstract P48.