Biography

Salome Kurth is Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Fribourg. Salome’s research interests are the maturation of sleep rhythm, sleep neurophysiology across the developmental period, cognitive development in early childhood and interactions with family context, nutrition, and gut microbiome. 

She pioneered pediatric research using high-spatial resolution EEG. She created sleep maps of the developing brain and discovered that slow wave activity (SWA, 1-4.5 Hz; a deep-sleep marker) shifts from posterior-to-anterior scalp regions, mirroring cortical anatomical maturation and associated behavioral functions. This research elucidates the brain connectome using a non-invasive, innovative approach. Her lab initiated research on novel connectivity markers and behavioral outcomes in infancy. They pioneered the exploration of the dynamic relationship between infant sleep regulation, gut microbiota, and neurodevelopment. Her findings show that SWA maps relate to gut microbiome profiles, with the strongest links occurring around 3 months of age, a critical period for predicting behavioral and developmental outcomes based on sleep habits and bacterial markers. Her latest work focused on early-life nutrition, and shows that maintaining a regular eating rhythm is reflected in gut microbiota and that high eating regularity predicts less fragmented nighttime sleep in infants. This opens new possibilities for interventions, including dietary adjustments and pediatric sleep education - a proactive approach to protecting long-term neurodevelopment.

Since 2019, she holds a SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship at the University of Fribourg. Prior to her position in Fribourg, she held a Junior Start-up grant from the Clinical Research Priority Program “Sleep and Health” at the University of Zurich, in the Departments of Neurology and Pulmonology at the University Hospital Zurich (2016 - 2018). Between 2012 and 2016 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Salome received her Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in 2011, with the International PhD Program in Neuroscience from the Neuroscience Center Zurich, she obtained her M.Sc. in Biology from the University of Bern in 2007.

Current SNSF projects: 
https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/181279
https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/10000835

Outreach:  
www.baby-sleep.ch

Research and publications

• Publication List
  153 publications

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  Stool Dynamics and the Developing Gut Microbiome During Infancy
  Andjela Markovic, Mohammed Al-Andoli, Sarah Schoch, Christophe Muhlematter, Matthieu Beaugrand, Oskar Jenni, Rabia Liamlahi, Jean-Claude Walser, Dennis Sandris Nielsen, Salome Kurth, Dennis Nielsen, Christophe Mühlematter, Oskar G. Jenni, (2025) | Preprint

  Tracing infant sleep neurophysiology longitudinally from 3 to 6 months: EEG insights into brain development
  Valeria Jaramillo, Matthieu Beaugrand, Christophe Muhlematter, Sarah F Schoch, Vivien Reicher, Andjela Markovic, Salome Kurth, Sarah F. Schoch, Christophe Mühlematter, (2025) | Preprint

  Fecal melatonin as a biomarker of emerging circadian maturity and gut microbiota in infancy
  Petra Zimmermann, Salome Kurth, Mohammed Al-Andoli, Sarah Schoch, Andjela Markovic, Christophe Mühlematter, Matthieu Beaugrand, Oskar Jenni, Rabia Liamlahi, Jean-Claude Walser, Dennis Nielsen, (2025) | Preprint

  The Infraslow Fluctuation of Sigma Power During Sleep in Young Individuals with Schizophrenia
  Maria E. Dimitriades, Eve Schumacher, Janani Arudchelvam, Sara Fattinger, Salome Kurth, Fiona Pugin, Leila Tarokh, Reto Huber, Miriam Gerstenberg, Flavia Wehrle, Valeria Jaramillo, Carina Volk, Sven Leach, Ashura Buckley, David Driver, Andjela Markovic, Judith L. Rapoport, Judith Rapoport, (2025) | Preprint

  Transfer of Bacteria From Mothers to Infants Through Breast Milk: A Systematic Review
  Delphine Hess, Paula Momo Cabrera, Salome Kurth, Petra Zimmermann, Nicholas A. Bokulich, Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal (2025) | Journal article

  NapBiome trial: Targeting gut microbiota to improve sleep rhythm and developmental and behavioural outcomes in early childhood in a birth cohort in Switzerland – a study protocol
  Martin Stocker, Petra Zimmermann, Salome Kurth, Stamatios Giannoukos, Nicholas A Bokulich, BMJ Open (2025) | Journal article

  Rhythms of early life: gut microbiota rhythmicity and circadian maturation in infants
  Christophe Muehlematter, Dennis Sandris Nielsen, Josue Castro-Mejia, Jean-Claude Walser, Sarah Schoch, Salome Kurth, Josue L. Castro-Mejía, Sarah F. Schoch, Christophe Mühlematter, Dennis S. Nielsen, (2025) | Preprint

  From womb to crib: How fetal activity patternsin uteroreveal postnatal sleep behavior
  Petra Zimmermann, Andjela Markovic, Christophe Muehlematter, Christine Blume, Salome Kurth, Christophe Mühlematter, (2024) | Preprint

  Microbial melatonin metabolism in the human intestine as a therapeutic target for dysbiosis and rhythm disorders
  Nicholas A. Bokulich, Petra Zimmermann, Salome Kurth, Benoit Pugin, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes (2024) | Journal article

  The Infraslow Fluctuation of Sigma Power During Sleep: Links to Markers of Arousal and Memory Reactivation Across Development
  , (2024) | Preprint

  Dieses Buch ist zum Einschlafen
  Caroline Lustenberger, Salome Kurth (Beobachter, Ringier, 2024) | Book

  Wake EEG oscillation dynamics reflect both sleep need and brain maturation across childhood and adolescence
  Carina Volk, Sophia Snipes, Elena Krugliakova, Valeria Jaramillo, Melanie Furrer, Mirjam Studler, Monique LeBourgeois, Salome Kurth, Oskar G. Jenni, Reto Huber, (2024) | Preprint

  Associations between Social Contact, Sleep and Dietary Patterns Among Children: A Cross-Sectional Study
  Salome Kurth, Christophe Mühlematter, Matthieu Beaugrand, Andjela Markovic, (2023) | Journal article

  Associations between Social Contact, Sleep and Dietary Patterns Among Children: A Cross-Sectional Study
  Salome Kurth, Christophe Mühlematter, Matthieu Beaugrand, Andjela Markovic, (2023) | Preprint

  Not simply a matter of parents—Infants’ sleep-wake patterns are associated with their regularity of eating
  Christophe Mühlematter and Dennis S. Nielsen and Josue L. Castro-Mejía and Steven A. Brown and Björn Rasch and Kenneth P. Wright and Jean-Claude Walser and Sarah F. Schoch and Salome Kurth, PLOS ONE (2023) | Journal article

  SOS mon bébé ne dort pas , in RTS, Radio Television Suisse
  Salome Kurth (20.9.2023) | Press article

  Lack of association between behavioral development and simplified topographical markers of the sleep EEG in infancy.
  Beaugrand M and Jaramillo V and Markovic A and Huber R and Kohler M and Schoch SF and Kurth S, Neurobiology of sleep and circadian rhythms (2023) | Journal article

  Sleep spindles across youth affected by schizophrenia or anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate-receptor encephalitis.
  Dimitriades ME and Markovic A and Gefferie SR and Buckley A and Driver DI and Rapoport JL and Nosadini M and Rostasy K and Sartori S and Suppiej A and Kurth S and Franscini M and Gerstenberg M, Frontiers in psychiatry (2023) | Journal article

  Bedtime to the brain: how infants’ sleep behaviours intertwine with non-rapid eye movement sleep electroencephalography features
  Sarah Schoch, Valeria Jaramillo, Andjela Markovic, Reto Huber, Malcolm Kohler, Oskar Jenni, Caroline Lustenberger, Salome Kurth, Journal of Sleep Research (2023) | Journal article

  Bedtime to the brain: how infants' sleep behaviours intertwine with non-rapid eye movement sleep electroencephalography features.
  Schoch SF and Jaramillo V and Markovic A and Huber R and Kohler M and Jenni OG and Lustenberger C and Kurth S, Journal of sleep research (2023) | Journal article

  An Infant Sleep Electroencephalographic Marker of Thalamocortical Connectivity Predicts Behavioral Outcome in Late Infancy
  Valeria Jaramillo and Sarah F. Schoch and Andjela Markovic and Malcolm Kohler and Reto Huber and Caroline Lustenberger and Salome Kurth, Neuroimage (2023) | Journal article

  The sleeping brain’s connectivity and family environment: characterizing sleep EEG coherence in an infant cohort
  Andjela Markovic, Sarah F. Schoch, Reto Huber, Malcolm Kohler, Salome Kurth, Scientific Reports (2023) | Journal article

  Sleep as a protective factor of children’s executive functions: A study during COVID-19 confinement
  Matthieu Beaugrand and Christophe Muehlematter and Andjela Markovic and Valérie Camos and Salome Kurth, PLOS ONE (2023) | Journal article

  The protective power of rest
  Salome Kurth, (2023) | Conference

  Ontogenetic sleep matters – new insights into the sleep-brain-gut connection
  Salome Kurth, (2023) | Conference

  Infant sleep matters: insights into the sleep-brain-gut connection
  Salome Kurth, (2023) | Conference

  Die Neurowissenschaft des Säuglingsschlafs und die Darm-Hirn Achse
  Salome Kurth, (2023) | Conference

  Interactions between sleep and gut bacteria in healthy developing infants
  Schoch, S. and Castro-Meija, J.L. and Krych, L. and Kot, W. and Leng, B. and Kohler, M. and Huber, R. and Rogler, G. and Biedermann, L. and Walser, J.-C. and Nielsen, D. and Kurth, S., Sleep Medicine (2022) | Journal article

  Sleep as protective factor of children’s executive functions: A study during COVID confinement
  Beaugrand, M. and Muehlematter, C. and Markovic, A. and Camos, V. and Kurth, S., Sleep Medicine (2022) | Journal article

  Sleep as protective factor of children’s executive functions: A study during COVID confinement
  Beaugrand M and Muehlematter C and Markovic A and Camos V and Kurth S, Sleep medicine (2022) | Journal article

  0187 Brain Connectivity and Parenting: Association between Familial Factors and Sleep EEG Coherence in Infancy
  Markovic, Andjela and Schoch, Sarah and Huber, Reto and Kohler, Malcolm and Kurth, Salome, Sleep (2022) | Journal article

  From Alpha Diversity to Zzz: Interactions among sleep, the brain, and gut microbiota in the first year of life
  S.F. Schoch and J.L. Castro-Mejía and L. Krych and B. Leng and W. Kot and M. Kohler and R. Huber and G. Rogler and L. Biedermann and J.C. Walser and D.S. Nielsen and S. Kurth, Progress in Neurobiology (2022) | Journal article

  Association of transportation noise with sleep during the first year of life: A longitudinal study
  Christine Blume and Sarah F. Schoch and Danielle Vienneau and Martin Röösli and Malcolm Kohler and Alexander Moeller and Salome Kurth and Jakob Usemann, Environmental Research (2022) | Journal article

  Reifung der Schlaf-Darm-Achse im Säuglingsalter, und Verbindungen zur Verhaltensentwicklung
  Salome Kurth, (2022) | Conference

  Maturation of sleep-gut microbiome dynamics in infancy and links to behavioral development
  Salome Kurth, (2022) | Conference

  Sleep to grow a healthy brain, with support of the gut microbiome
  Salome Kurth, (2022) | Conference

  Which are the central aspects of infant sleep? The dynamics of Sleep Composites across infancy, and From Alpha Diversity to ZZZ: Interactions among sleep, the brain, and gut microbiota in the first year of life
  Salome Kurth, (2022) | Conference

  Infant sleep matters: new insights into the sleep-brain-gut connection
  Salome Kurth, (2022) | Conference

  Sleep-wake rhythm development in the (un)born infant: multi-dimensional interactions
  Salome Kurth, (2022) | Conference

  A dream team: sleep and bacteria of the digestive tract
  Salome Kurth, (2022) | Conference

  Microbiome and psychopathology
  Salome Kurth, (2022) | Conference

  Altered EEG markers of synaptic plasticity in a human model of NMDA receptor deficiency: Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis.
  Gefferie SR and Maric A and Critelli H and Gueden S and Kurlemann G and Kurth S and Nosadini M and Plecko B and Ringli M and Rostásy K and Sartori S and Schmitt B and Suppiej A and Bölsterli BK, NeuroImage (2021) | Journal article

  Sleep behavior of infants with infantile hemangioma treated with propranolol-a cohort study.
  Theiler M and Knöpfel N and von der Heydt S and Schwieger-Briel A and Luchsinger I and Smith A and Kernland-Lang K and Waelchli R and Neuhaus K and Kohler M and Gnannt R and Kurth S, European journal of pediatrics (2021) | Journal article

  Severe effects of the COVID-19 confinement on young children's sleep: A longitudinal study identifying risk and protective factors.
  Markovic A and Mühlematter C and Beaugrand M and Camos V and Kurth S, Journal of sleep research (2021) | Journal article

  Infants’ sleep neurophysiology beyond the brain: interactions with bedtimes, behavior and the gut microbiome
  Salome Kurth, (2021) | Conference

  Why sleep matters: Connections with the growing brain and the bacterial landscape of the gut
  Salome Kurth, (2021) | Conference

  Sleep-brain axis in early childhood: what has the gut got to do with it?
  Salome Kurth, (2021) | Conference

  Schlaf als Ressource für Kinder und Erwachsene
  Salome Kurth, (2021) | Conference

  Which Are the Central Aspects of Infant Sleep? The Dynamics of Sleep Composites across Infancy
  Sarah Schoch, Reto Huber, Malcolm Kohler, Salome Kurth, Sensors (2020) | Journal article

  Which are the central aspects of infant sleep? The dynamic of sleep composites across infancy
  Schoch SF and Huber R and Kohler M and Kurth S, (2020) | Preprint

  Altered EEG markers of synaptic plasticity in a human model of NMDA receptor deficiency: anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
  Gefferie SR and Maric A and Critelli H and Gueden S and Kurlemann G and Kurth S and Nosadini M and Plecko B and Ringli M and Rostásy K and Sartori S and Schmitt B and Suppiej A and Bölsterli BK, (2020) | Preprint

  Characterization of overnight slow-wave slope changes across development in an age-, amplitude-, and region-dependent manner.
  Jaramillo V and Volk C and Maric A and Furrer M and Fattinger S and Kurth S and Lustenberger C and Huber R, Sleep (2020) | Journal article

  Actigraphy in sleep research with infants and young children: Current practices and future benefits of standardized reporting
  Journal of Sleep Research (2020) | Journal article

  0321 Increased Slow-Wave Activity Predicts Slower Processing Speed in Toddlers
  Waddle, A E and Kurth, S and Harsh, J and Lassonde, J M and Lee, D and LeBourgeois, M K, Sleep (2020) | Journal article

  Spatio-temporal properties of sleep slow waves and implications for development.
  Timofeev I and Schoch SF and LeBourgeois MK and Huber R and Riedner BA and Kurth S, Current opinion in physiology (2020) | Journal article

  Slow oscillations in children and their potential as neurodevelopmental marker,
  Salome Kurth, (2020) | Conference

  On the search of how sleep regulation develops in the first year of human life: Does the gut microbiome play a role?
  Salome Kurth, (2020) | Conference

  Ask the professors: Things I’ve always wanted to know
  Salome Kurth, (2020) | Conference

  Sleep EEG slow-wave activity in medicated and unmedicated children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
  Furrer M and Jaramillo V and Volk C and Ringli M and Aellen R and Wehrle FM and Pugin F and Kurth S and Brandeis D and Schmid M and Jenni OG and Huber R, Translational psychiatry (2019) | Journal article

  The experience-dependent increase in deep sleep activity is reduced in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
  Furrer M and Ringli M and Kurth S and Brandeis D and Jenni OG and Huber R, Sleep medicine (2019) | Journal article

  29.1 A SLEEP EEG MARKER TO ASSESS BRAIN MYELIN DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN
  Kurth, Salome, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (2019) | Journal article

  Endocrine responses during CPAP-withdrawal in obstructive sleep apnea: data from two randomised controlled trials
  Thiel, Sira and Haile, Sarah R and Peitzsch, Mirko and Schwarz, Esther I and Sievi, Noriane A and Kurth, Salome and Beuschlein, Felix and Kohler, Malcolm and Gaisl, Thomas, Sleep and control of breathing: European Respiratory Society (28.9.2019) | Conference

  Endocrine responses during CPAP withdrawal in obstructive sleep apnoea: data from two randomised controlled trials.
  Thiel S and Haile SR and Peitzsch M and Schwarz EI and Sievi NA and Kurth S and Beuschlein F and Kohler M and Gaisl T, Thorax (2019) | Journal article

  Actimetry in infant sleep research: an approach to facilitate comparability.
  Schoch SF and Jenni OG and Kohler M and Kurth S, Sleep (2019) | Journal article

  A simple sleep EEG marker in childhood predicts brain myelin 3.5 years later.
  LeBourgeois MK and Dean DC and Deoni SCL and Kohler M and Kurth S, NeuroImage (2019) | Journal article

  Improved automatic classification of sleep stages in infants using high-density EEG recordings
  S.F. Schoch and I.A. Verzhbinsky and R. Kim and T.J. Sejnowski and S. Kurth, Sleep Medicine (2019) | Journal article

  The association between slow-wave activity (SWA) and processing speed in toddlers
  A. Waddle and M. LeBourgeois and S. Kurth and J. Harsh and J. Lassonde and D. Lee, Sleep Medicine (2019) | Journal article

  Website of the Baby Sleep Lab
  Salome Kurth (2019) | Other

  A sleep EEG marker to assess brain myelin development in children
  Salome Kurth, (2019) | Conference

  Sleep and gut bacteria in the early human lifespan: A window of opportunity?
  Salome Kurth, (2019) | Conference

  Maturation of sleep rhythm in children: Investigating its function and risks
  Salome Kurth, (2019) | Conference

  Sleep regulation in early life – a window of opportunity for development
  Salome Kurth, (2019) | Conference

  Babies, Bedtimes and Bacteria
  Salome Kurth, (2019) | Conference

  Development of rhythm in the first year: sleep regulation in infants
  Salome Kurth, (2019) | Conference

  Babies, Bedtimes and Bacteria
  Salome Kurth, (2019) | Conference

  Schlaf bei Kindern - ein Fenster mit Einblick in die Entwicklung
  Salome Kurth, (2019) | Conference

  Across-night dynamics in traveling sleep slow waves throughout childhood.
  Schoch SF and Riedner BA and Deoni SC and Huber R and LeBourgeois MK and Kurth S, Sleep (2018) | Journal article

  How do children fall asleep? A high-density EEG study of slow waves in the transition from wake to sleep.
  Spiess M and Bernardi G and Kurth S and Ringli M and Wehrle FM and Jenni OG and Huber R and Siclari F, NeuroImage (2018) | Journal article

  Babies, bedtimes and bacteria
  Salome Kurth, (2018) | Conference

  Grundlagen: Schlaf bei Kindern. Aktuelle Forschung
  Salome Kurth, (2018) | Conference

  Das Schreibaby: Haben Schlaf und Darmflora einen Einfluss?
  Salome Kurth, (2018) | Conference

  Sleep – the “off-state” of our brains?
  Salome Kurth, (2018) | Conference

  Schlaf, Gesundheit und Gesellschaft
  Salome Kurth, (2018) | Conference

  EEG signatures of brain maturation in children: age-related and across-night dynamics in spatial propagation of slow oscillations
  Schoch, S. and Riedner, B. and Dean, D. and O’Muircheartaigh, J. and Deoni, S. and Huber, R. and Jenni, O. and LeBourgeois, M. and Kurth, S., Sleep Medicine (2017) | Journal article

  Theta waves in children's waking electroencephalogram resemble local aspects of sleep during wakefulness.
  Fattinger S and Kurth S and Ringli M and Jenni OG and Huber R, Scientific reports (2017) | Journal article

  Traveling Slow Oscillations During Sleep: A Marker of Brain Connectivity in Childhood.
  Kurth S and Riedner BA and Dean DC and O’Muircheartaigh J and Huber R and Jenni OG and Deoni SCL and LeBourgeois MK, Sleep (2017) | Journal article

  Acute sleep restriction increases dietary intake in preschool-age children
  Mullins, E. N. and Miller, A. L. and Cherian, S. S. and Lumeng, J. C. and Wright, K. P. and Kurth, S. and Lebourgeois, M. K., Journal of Sleep Research (2017) | Journal article

  Chronic social stress leads to altered sleep homeostasis in mice
  Olini, N. and Rothfuchs, I. and Azzinnari, D. and Pryce, C. R. and Kurth, S. and Huber, R., Behavioural Brain Research (2017) | Journal article

  Developmental trajectories of EEG sleep slow wave activity as a marker for motor skill development during adolescence: a pilot study
  Lustenberger, Caroline and Mouthon, Anne-Laure and Tesler, Noemi and Kurth, Salome and Ringli, Maya and Buchmann, Andreas and Jenni, Oskar G. and Huber, Reto, Developmental Psychobiology (2017) | Journal article

  High-Density Electroencephalographic Recordings During Sleep in Children and Adolescents With Acquired Brain Injury
  Mouthon, Anne-Laure and Meyer-Heim, Andreas and Kurth, Salome and Ringli, Maya and Pugin, Fiona and van Hedel, Hubertus J. A. and Huber, Reto, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (2017) | Journal article

  Sleep Moderates the Association Between Response Inhibition and Self-Regulation in Early Childhood
  Schumacher, A. M. and Miller, A. L. and Watamura, S. E. and Kurth, S. and Lassonde, J. M. and LeBourgeois, M. K., Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (2017) | Journal article

  Concerns about your baby's sleep: maternal cognitions and infant sleep at 3 and 6 months of age
  S.F. Schoch and O.G. Jenni and R. Huber and S. Kurth, Sleep Medicine (2017) | Journal article

  The possibility of a sleep-brain-gut axis
  Salome Kurth, (2017) | Conference

  EEG signatures of brain maturation
  Salome Kurth, (2017) | Conference

  The gut-brain-sleep axis – how can we digest it
  Salome Kurth, (2017) | Conference

  Using Actigraphy in Sleep Research
  Salome Kurth, (2017) | Conference

  Sleep Physiology in Toddlers: Effects of Missing a Nap on Subsequent Night Sleep.
  Lassonde JM and Rusterholz T and Kurth S and Schumacher AM and Achermann P and LeBourgeois MK, Neurobiology of sleep and circadian rhythms (2016) | Journal article

  Development of nap neurophysiology: preliminary insights into sleep regulation in early childhood
  Kurth, Salome and Lassonde, Jonathan M. and Pierpoint, Lauren A. and Rusterholz, Thomas and Jenni, Oskar G. and McClain, Ian J. and Achermann, Peter and LeBourgeois, Monique K., Journal of Sleep Research (2016) | Journal article

  Developmental Changes in Sleep Spindle Characteristics and Sigma Power across Early Childhood
  McClain, Ian J. and Lustenberger, Caroline and Achermann, Peter and Lassonde, Jonathan M. and Kurth, Salome and LeBourgeois, Monique K., Neural Plasticity (2016) | Journal article

  High-density electroencephalographic recordings during sleep in children with disorders of consciousness
  Mouthon, Anne-Laure and van Hedel, Hubertus J. A. and Meyer-Heim, Andreas and Kurth, Salome and Ringli, Maya and Pugin, Fiona and Huber, Reto, Neuroimage-Clinical (2016) | Journal article

  Mapping brain connectivity with spatio-temporal patterns of sleep slow oscillations across childhood
  Salome Kurth, (2016) | Conference

  Increased sleep depth in developing neural networks: new insights from sleep restriction in children
  Salome Kurth, (2016) | Conference

  Sleep and the gut microbiome
  Salome Kurth, (2016) | Conference

  Developing neural networks: new insights from sleep EEG in children
  Salome Kurth, (2016) | Conference

  Sleep and neurodevelopment
  Salome Kurth, (2016) | Conference

  Region-specific response to shortened sleep in childhood: Associations with performance and myelination
  Kurth, S. and Dean, D.C. and Achermann, P. and O’Muircheartaigh, J. and Huber, R. and Deoni, S.C. and LeBourgeois, M.K., Brain, Behavior, and Immunity (2015) | Journal article

  Sleep and Early Cortical Development.
  Kurth S and Olini N and Huber R and LeBourgeois M, Current sleep medicine reports (2015) | Journal article

  Caffeine Consuming Children and Adolescents Show Altered Sleep Behavior and Deep Sleep
  Aepli, Andrina and Kurth, Salome and Tesler, Noemi and Jenni, Oskar G. and Huber, Reto, Brain Sciences (2015) | Journal article

  Myelination Is Associated with Processing Speed in Early Childhood: Preliminary Insights
  Chevalier, N. and Kurth, S. and Doucette, M. R. and Wiseheart, M. and Deoni, S. C. L. and Dean, D. C. and O’Muircheartaigh, J. and Blackwell, K. A. and Munakata, Y. and LeBourgeois, M. K., Plos One (2015) | Journal article

  Topography of Slow Sigma Power during Sleep is Associated with Processing Speed in Preschool Children
  Doucette, Margaret R. and Kurth, Salome and Chevalier, Nicolas and Munakata, Yuko and LeBourgeois, Monique K., Brain Sciences (2015) | Journal article

  Sleep and brain development
  Salome Kurth, (2015) | Conference

  Neural network dynamics: What can we learn from children’s sleep? Symposium title: Brain Plasticity and Network Dynamics in Sleep: Moving the Field Forward with Novel Quantitative Tools
  Salome Kurth, (2015) | Conference

  Region-specific response to shortened sleep in childhood: Associations with performance and myelination
  Salome Kurth, (2015) | Conference

  Maturation of EEG neurophysiology: New insights into sleep regulation across childhood
  Salome Kurth, (2015) | Conference

  Sleep Slow-Wave Activity Reveals Developmental Changes in Experience-Dependent Plasticity
  Wilhelm, Ines and Kurth, Salome and Ringli, Maya and Mouthon, Anne-Laure and Buchmann, Andreas and Geiger, Anja and Jenni, Oskar G. and Huber, Reto, Journal of Neuroscience (2014) | Journal article

  Spike wave location and density disturb sleep slow waves in patients with CSWS (continuous spike waves during sleep)
  Heinzle, Bigna K. Belsterli and Fattinger, Sara and Kurth, Salome and LeBourgeois, Monique K. and Ringli, Maya and Bast, Thomas and Critelli, Hanne and Schmitt, Bernhard and Huber, Reto, Epilepsia (2014) | Journal article

  Sleep and brain development
  Salome Kurth, (2014) | Conference

  Neurodevelopment and sleep regulation in children
  Salome Kurth, (2014) | Conference

  Region-specific response to sleep restriction in children: associations with performance and myelination
  Salome Kurth, (2014) | Conference

  Development of Brain EEG Connectivity across Early Childhood: Does Sleep Play a Role?
  Kurth S and Achermann P and Rusterholz T and Lebourgeois MK, Brain sciences (2013) | Journal article

  Dynamic properties of sleep states in children and adults
  Imbach, L. L. and Werth, E. and Kurth, S. and LeBourgeois, M. and Huber, R. and Baumann, C. R., Journal of Neurology (2013) | Journal article

  The Effects of Caffeine on Sleep and Maturational Markers in the Rat
  Olini, Nadja and Kurth, Salome and Huber, Reto, Plos One (2013) | Journal article

  The sleep EEG topography in children and adolescents shows sex differences in language areas
  Ringli, Maya and Kurth, Salome and Huber, Reto and Jenni, Oskar G., International Journal of Psychophysiology (2013) | Journal article

  Topography of sleep slow wave activity in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
  Ringli, Maya and Souissi, Soraya and Kurth, Salome and Brandeis, Daniel and Jenni, Oskar G. and Huber, Reto, Cortex (2013) | Journal article

  The developing sleep EEG and clinical context
  Salome Kurth, (2013) | Conference

  Early developmental changes in the temporal dynamics of sleep EEG coherence
  Salome Kurth, (2013) | Conference

  Myelin patterns and high-density sleep EEG in preschool children. Investigations of brain maturation and function
  Salome Kurth, (2013) | Conference

  Early developmental changes and across-night dynamics in sleep EEG coherence
  Salome Kurth, (2013) | Conference

  Local Sleep
  Salome Kurth, (2013) | Conference

  Brain connectivity assessed by sleep EEG coherence spectra: region- and frequency-specific maturation during early childhood
  Kurth, S. and Rusterholz, T. and Achermann, P. and Lebourgeois, M., Journal of Sleep Research (2012) | Journal article

  Caffeine delays markers of maturation in juvenile rats
  Olini, N. and Kurth, S. and Huber, R., Journal of Sleep Research (2012) | Journal article

  Mapping the electrophysiological marker of sleep depth reveals skill maturation in children and adolescents
  Kurth, Salome and Ringli, Maya and LeBourgeois, Monique K. and Geiger, Anja and Buchmann, Andreas and Jenni, Oskar G. and Huber, Reto, Neuroimage (2012) | Journal article

  Sleep electroencephalography topography and children's intellectual ability.
  Geiger A and Huber R and Kurth S and Ringli M and Achermann P and Jenni OG, Neuroreport (2012) | Journal article

  Sleep Slow Oscillations and Cortical Maturation
  Salomé Kurth and Reto Huber , Elsevier (2012) | Other

  Sleep electrophysiology – a mirror of brain maturation
  Salome Kurth, (2012) | Conference

  Regional sleep physiology and brain development
  Salome Kurth, (2012) | Conference

  Brain connectivity and sleep in early childhood
  Salome Kurth, (2012) | Conference

  The maturation of specific skills is predicted by the topographical distribution for sleep slow wave activity
  Salome Kurth, (2012) | Conference

  Anatomical markers of sleep slow wave activity derived from structural magnetic resonance images.
  Buchmann A and Kurth S and Ringli M and Geiger A and Jenni OG and Huber R, Journal of sleep research (2011) | Journal article

  The sleep EEG as a marker of intellectual ability in school age children.
  Geiger A and Huber R and Kurth S and Ringli M and Jenni OG and Achermann P, Sleep (2011) | Journal article

  Plasticity and sleep during development
  Salome Kurth, (2011) | Conference

  EEG sleep slow-wave activity as a mirror of cortical maturation.
  Buchmann A and Ringli M and Kurth S and Schaerer M and Geiger A and Jenni OG and Huber R, Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) (2010) | Journal article

  Characteristics of sleep slow waves in children and adolescents.
  Kurth S and Jenni OG and Riedner BA and Tononi G and Carskadon MA and Huber R, Sleep (2010) | Journal article

  Sleep EEG topography during childhood: a reflection of cortical maturation?
  Salome Kurth, (2010) | Conference

  Mapping of Cortical Activity in the First Two Decades of Life: A High-Density Sleep Electroencephalogram Study
  Salome Kurth, (2010) | Conference

  Measures of cortical maturation
  Salome Kurth, (2010) | Conference

  Mapping cortical maturation by high density EEG during sleep
  Salome Kurth, (2010) | Conference

  Characteristics of sleep slow-waves in children and adolescents
  Salome Kurth, (2009) | Conference

  Schlaf EEG – Entwicklungsaspekte
  Salome Kurth, (2009) | Conference

  Relationship between sleep pressure and the slope of slow-waves during puberty
  Salome Kurth, (2008) | Conference

  From Alpha Diversity to ZZZ: Exploring associations among sleep, gut bacteria and behavioral development in infancy
  Schoch, Sarah Fiona and Castro-Meija, Josue L. and Krych, Lukas and Kot, Witold and Leng, Bingfeng and Kohler, Malcolm and Huber, Reto and Rogler, Gerhard and Biedermann, Luc and Walser, Jean-Claude and Nielsen, Dennis S. and Kurth, Salome , Center for Open Science | Other

  The Sleeping Brain’s Connectivity and Family Environment: Characterizing Sleep EEG Coherence in an Infant Cohort
  Markovic, Andjela and Schoch, Sarah F. and Huber, Reto and Kohler, Malcolm and Kurth, Salome , Research Square Platform LLC | Other

  Association of transportation noise with sleep during infancy: a longitudinal study
  Blume, Christine and Schoch, Sarah Fiona and Vienneau, Danielle and Röösli, Martin and Kohler, Malcolm and Möller, Alexander and Kurth, Salome and Usemann, Jakob , Center for Open Science | Other

• Research projects

  GrumpyBiome: Synchronization of gut microbiota and sleep rhythm in infancy
  Status: Completed

  Start	01.10.2022
  End	30.09.2024
  Funding	Other

  Development of sleep regulation – a window of opportunity for fostering healthy development
  Status: Ongoing

  Start	01.09.2019
  End	31.07.2025
  Funding	SNSF  Open project sheet
  Good sleep is essential to human health, as it fosters neuronal functioning, cognitive performance and decision-making. Empirical work in the past decade has caused a shift in view from sleep as a pure behavior towards sleep as localized neurophysiological and cellular recovery process. Sleep also interacts with neurodevelopment – a connotation that opens up new avenues for interventional studies. Importantly, bacterial symbionts partially regulate the gene expression landscape of the human host. First indications suggest that bacteria are also linked to host sleep regulation. Mechanisms physiologically underlying the sleep-bacteria link were proposed to include peripheral circadian synchronization, the sleep hormone melatonin or neurotrophic/ neuroendocrine pathways. This project aims to foster the understanding of the role of sleep and especially also bacterial symbionts in cognitive development. We hypothesize that: (1) sleep quality is influenced by bacteria in infants, (2) sleep-wake behavior is associated with neurophysiological (EEG) maturational markers, and (3) neurophysiological maturational markers are associated with cognitive development. With a nutritional monitoring and a sleep intervention we will explore the link between of bacteria and infant sleep regulation. Associations will further be tested in a clinical population of preterm-born infants, and further, effects of antibiotic exposure will be quantified. With a behavioral sleep intervention, we will explore effects of improved sleep on bacteria and cognition. To capture the development of sleep-wake regulation, sleep will be objectively assessed in a core cohort of mother-infant pairs, starting in pregnancy. We will investigate the association of sleep-wake behavior with neuronal maturational markers (sleep high density EEG) and with cognitive development. The project at the edge of neuroscience, psychology and microbiology and the use of novel approaches tackling the early human lifespan has the immediate goal to examine the role of the bacteria-sleep link in infant development and the visionary goal to improve cognitive development by fostering healthy sleep regulation in infants.

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