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… memories. However, our brains need to disconnect — i.e., sleep — from the noisy sensory world that we’re steeped in. Sleep helps us maintain brain health, makes our memories … the sensory world? “The content of memory is hidden during sleep and therefore requires tools for decoding content that …

… of clinical neuroscience such as psychiatry, neurology and sleep medicine. Investigations underway via the effort … can be modified to produce more physiologically sound sleep aids, and whether approaches used to accelerate …

… Speakers describe studies to address Alzheimer’s disease, sleep apnea and to advance fundamental discoveries in cell … of the symposium, along with new potential therapies for sleep apnea, and fundamental research on developmental … and sound is safe and may be contributing to improved sleep and a preservation of brain volume in patients with …

… applies them to study the neural circuitry that controls sleep, and the consequences of sleep for brain function. Sleep Brain Imaging Arousal Control Neural Circuits …

… the flow of cerebrospinal fluid neurodegeneration fMRI Sleep visual system blood cerebrovasculature cerebrospinal … helps remove toxins from the brain, particularly while we sleep. Reduced flow of cerebrospinal fluid is known to be … as occur in Alzheimer’s disease. Based on evidence from sleep studies, the researchers hypothesized that brain …

… observations in mice have shown that hunger affects their sleep patterns. Hungry mice tend to sleep less, and their sleep appears less stable than when they are well-fed. …

… MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 1994. Sleep Learning and Memory Memory Systems Neural Signal … animals have led to the exploration of the nature of sleep and its role in memory. Previous theories have suggested that sleep states may be involved in the process of memory …

… 2019 Picower People Research will probe how states like sleep emerge and are sustained neuromodulation … fire on a timeframe of mere milliseconds, behaviors like sleep or emotions like sadness can last for hours or days.  A … worm’s nervous system produces and sustains states like sleep and wakefulness. Those findings can then inform studies …

… the hypothesis that memory is consolidated during sleep. Sleep is an ideal condition for memory research, Wilson … 2002, for example, he showed that while memory replay in sleep’s REM phase occurs in long stretches almost like the …