Poor Sleep Prevents Brain From Storing Memories

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Submitted by jjp9999 on Monday January 28, 2013 @03:15AM

jjp9999 writes "Recent findigns published on Jan. 27 in the journal Nature Neuroscience may inspire you to get some proper sleep. Researchers at UC Berkley found that REM sleep plays a key role in moving short term memories from the hippocampus (where short-term memories are stored) to the prefrontal cortex (where long-term memories are stored), and that degeneration of the frontal lobe as we grow older may play a key role in forgetfulness. "What we have discovered is a dysfunctional pathway that helps explain the relationship between brain deterioration, sleep disruption and memory loss as we get older – and with that, a potentially new treatment avenue," said UC Berkeley sleep researcher Matthew Walker."
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Timing is everything (Score:2)

by egcagrac0 (1410377) writes:

I, for one, greatly enjoy that this article about the value of sleep was submitted at 2:15am.

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