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Sleep is vital to associating emotion with memory

Feb 26, 2021 by

Sleep is vital to associating emotion with memory

Researchers at the University of Michigan have confirmed that sleep tattoos memories into your brain. The team found that groups of neurons activated during prior learning, especially when emotion is involved....

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Sleep loss may disrupt the brain’s ability to “unlearn” fear...

Nov 30, 2020 by

Sleep loss may disrupt the brain’s ability to “unlearn” fear

A new study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging has found that getting less sleep than normal can impair the brain’s capacity to regulate fear. This may explain why frequent sleep disturbances make people more...

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Brain damage from sleep apnea and Alzheimer’s looks identical...

Oct 26, 2020 by

Brain damage from sleep apnea and Alzheimer’s looks identical

A team of researchers at the School of Health and Biomedical sciences at RMIT University found multiple similarities between Alzheimer’s and sleep apnea in terms of brain damage. In both, plaques appear first in the same locations and spread...

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Study says body clock rhythms, not sleep, dispose of brain’s toxic waste...

Sep 24, 2020 by

Study says body clock rhythms, not sleep, dispose of brain’s toxic waste

Scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center recently conducted tests on mice to study their bodies’ circadian rhythms. They found that this system governs the glymphatic system—nerve cells that serve as the waste disposal system in the brain....

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Sleep Apnea Tied to Alzheimer’s-like Changes

Apr 17, 2020 by

Sleep Apnea Tied to Alzheimer’s-like Changes

In a new French study, researchers discovered amyloid plaques—a characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease—in the brains of people who have sleep apnea. The results of the research were published in the journal JAMA Neurology....

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Boosting learning and memory while you sleep—with scents

Mar 3, 2020 by

Boosting learning and memory while you sleep—with scents

New research has found that the strategic use of certain scents while learning and during sleep appears to improve exam performance. The results showed that using fragrance can work in everyday life—not just in a clinical setting....

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Immune cells do maintenance on the brain during sleep

Feb 6, 2020 by

Immune cells do maintenance on the brain during sleep

Although previous has shown us that the brain clears up waste and updates memories during sleep, new research has found that specialized immune cells are hard at work in the brain during sleep too....

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