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Stressed to the max? Deep sleep can rewire the anxious brain

Neuroscience NewsNovember 4, 2019

Deep sleep restores the medial prefrontal cortex mechanisms that restore emotion. This lowers emotional and physiological reactivity, preventing the escalation of stress and anxiety.... Read More...

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Not All Sleep is Equal When it Comes to Cleaning the Brain

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 27, 2019

Study reinforces and explains the links between sleep deprivation and neurodegenerative diseases, researchers say.... Read More...

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Rocking Improves Sleep and Memory in Both People and Mice

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 24, 2019

A new study reveals people fall asleep faster when being rocked. Additionally, they showed improvements in memory consolidation and spent more time in non-REM sleep.... Read More...

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Decreased Deep Sleep Linked to Early Alzheimer’s Disease

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 9, 2019

A new study links poor sleep quality in older adults with elevated levels of tau, a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease. Researchers report poor sleep quality later in life may be associated with declining brain health and may be an early indicator of Alzheimer's disease.... Read More...

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How the Brain Learns During Sleep

Neuroscience NewsOctober 5, 2018

A new study sheds additional light on how the brain consolidates memory during sleep. Researchers report rapid fluctuations in gamma band activity in the hippocampus during nREM sleep helps facilitate memory reactivation.... Read More...

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Genes that Regulate How Much We Dream

Neuroscience NewsAugust 28, 2018

A new study identifies two genes which regulate how much we dream. The genes, Chrm1 and Chrm3, play a key role in regulating REM sleep and function in different ways.... Read More...

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Learning While Sleeping? Our Capabilities May Be Limited

Neuroscience NewsAugust 7, 2018

A new study MEG study reveals our ability to learn during slow wave sleep is limited. ... Read More...

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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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Why People With Insomnia Don’t Know They’re Asleep

Neuroscience NewsMarch 29, 2018

People with insomnia have greater brain activity in regions associated with conscious awareness during NREM sleep, researchers report. ... Read More...

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Why Does Sleep Become Disrupted in Old Age?

Neuroscience NewsMarch 26, 2018

Age related sleep disruptions are not due to alterations in activity of individual neurons as previously believed, researchers report.... Read More...

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