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How REM and Non-REM Sleep May Work Together to Help Solve Problems

Neuroscience NewsMay 15, 2018

Researchers have created a new model that may help explain how different sleep patterns may help us to solve problems. The study reveals non-REM sleep helps us categorize information, where as REM sleep helps us to draw unexpected connections between information we have been exposed to.... Read More...

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Memories Can Be Decoded from Brain Waves During Sleep

Neuroscience NewsMarch 8, 2018

Sleep spindles assist with the processing of relevant memories during sleep and help boost memory consolidation, researchers report.... Read More...

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First Look at Pupil Size in Sleeping Mice Yields Surprises

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 18, 2018

Researchers report the size of the pupil fluctuates during sleep. The findings may indicate that pupil size can indicate specific sleep states.... Read More...

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Wrist Worn Gadget Allows Researchers to Capture Real Life Sleep

Neuroscience NewsDecember 29, 2017

A simple actimeter device is helping researchers better understand sleep duration and quality in humans.... Read More...

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Brain Still ‘Connected’ During Non-REM Sleep

Neuroscience NewsDecember 1, 2017

Contrary to a popular theory, researchers discover the brain remains connected during non-REM sleep. The study reports not all forms of communication within the cerebral cortex are disrupted during this sleep phase.... Read More...

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Love Your Beauty Rest? You Can Thank These Brain Cells

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 4, 2017

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have identified specific neurons in the zona incerta that appear to help promote sleep. The discovery could help develop new treatments for insomnia and other sleep disorders.... Read More...

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Deep Sleep Reinforces the Learning of New Motor Skills

Neuroscience NewsAugust 11, 2017

According to UCSF researchers, during non-REM sleep, newly learned useful neural patterns are replayed and recapped.... Read More...

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Controlling Memory By Triggering Specific Brain Waves During Sleep

Neuroscience NewsJuly 6, 2017

Using optogenetics, researchers manipulated pulses of neural activity during non REM sleep that made mice either remember of forget things they had learned. This novel study demonstrated that altering sleep spindle oscillations during sleep has an impact on memory formation and retention.... Read More...

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Deep Sleep May Act As Fountain of Youth in Old Age

Neuroscience NewsApril 5, 2017

Natural, restorative sleep can help stave off mental and physical decline as we age.... Read More...

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Universal Immune Mechanism as a Regulator of Sleep

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 2, 2017

Sleep may be regulated by inflammasome NLRP3, researchers report.... Read More...

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Mouse Mutants May Shed Light on the Mysteries of Sleep

Neuroscience NewsNovember 2, 2016

A new study could be the first step to understanding the biochemistry that controls the switch from sleep to wakefulness, researchers believe.... Read More...

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Dreamless Sleep Store the Day’s Sensory Experiences

Neuroscience NewsAugust 17, 2016

A new study reveals how tactile experiences are encoded in the brain as we sleep.... Read More...

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How REM and Non-REM Sleep May Work Together to Help Solve Problems

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