Sleep discovery could lead to therapies that improve memory
But a medical study found increased risk of death from taking sleeping pills
March 13, 2013
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A team of sleep researchers led by UC Riverside psychologist Sara C. Mednick has confirmed the mechanism that enables the brain to consolidate memory and found that a commonly prescribed sleep aid enhances the process.
A team of sleep researchers led by UC Riverside psychologist Sara C. Mednick has confirmed the mechanism that enables the brain to consolidate memory and found that a commonly prescribed sleep aid enhances the process.
Those discoveries could lead to new sleep therapies that will improve memory for aging adults and those with dementia, Alzheimer’s, and schizophrenia.
Earlier research found a correlation between sleep spindles — bursts of brain activity that last for a second or less during stage 2 sleep —and consolidation of memories that depend on the hippocampus./.../
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