Study Gives Key Role to Sleep in Helping Brain Learn Anew
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New research supports the hypothesis that during sleep, the connections between neurons weaken.
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Brain scans reveal how the brain gets 'tired and over-emotional' when someone is deprived of sleep.
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The areas of the brain involved in learning fears have been known, but new research now identifies the areas involved in extinguishing those fears. The amygdala is a key in both learning and unlearning fears.
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Scientists have mapped a key network of switches in the brain which could aid research into neurological conditions.
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NEW YORK  - Administration of orexin-A, a naturally occurring brain neurotransmitter, counteracts the intellectual deficits and altered brain metabolism induced by sleep deprivation in monkeys, new research findings show.
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A familiar scent can help a slumbering brain better remember things that it learned the evening before.
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New research underscores a vast transformation in the way scientists have come to understand the sleeping brain.
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Babies who never sleep on their stomachs don&#39;t learn behaviors that may lessen their risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
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How many people have gone home after a blindingly stressful day and realise theyâve forgotten some important event or errand? Well, now at least thereâsa scientific explanation for the oversight: stress makes you forgetful.
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NEW YORK  - The results of a preliminary study suggest that memory deficits that are common among people with sleep apnea can improve when they are treated with positive airway pressure.
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Researchers expose differences in brain activity between people who fib and those who don't. Brain scans reveal that it really is easier to tell the truth.
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How many people have gotten home after a blindingly stressful day and realize they&#39;ve forgotten something important? Well, now at least there&#39;s a scientific explanation for the oversight.
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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
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WASHINGTON - A stroke that robbed a woman of her dreams may help pinpoint where and how dreams are born in the brain, scientists said on Friday.
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New recordings of electrical activity in the brain may explain a major part of its function, including how it consolidates daily memories and why it needs to dream.
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An old drug once used to study epilepsy can help improve learning in mice with a form of Down syndrome and also might help people, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.
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A new study suggests that blocking some memories helps in recalling others.