Shelley went to the Society for Neuroscience meeting and saw a talk on sleep deprivation, memory and hippocampus.
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Another exciting day at the Experimental Biology meeting for physiologists! Although I am a bit nervous about the session on the negative effects of sleep deprivation, "Sleepless in San Diego: Is Sleep Deprivation the New Silent Killer?" Hmmm, maybe I should have gone to bed a bit earlier last…
A talk I saw at SFN received a news release which was emailed to me by a reader (thanks!). I didn't take notes during the talk, so this was a nice piece of serendipity.
The title of the talk was "Role of Sleep in Human Memory Consolidation and Reconsolidation" (Sunday, Oct 15 2006 9:15 AM - 9:35…
This is interesting:
Study: Sleep linked to brain cell creation:
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science research on rats found that the hippocampus portion of the brain was directly affected by a lack of sleep for a long period, the BBC reported.
By depriving rats of sleep for 72 hours…
More stuff from SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies:
Sleep Deprivation Affects Eye-steering Coordination When Driving:
Driving a vehicle requires coordination of horizontal eye movements and steering. Recent research finds that even a single night of…
It's not the first all-nighter that's hard; it's the second one in a row.
It's not the first all-nighter that's hard; it's the second one in a row.
I always thought that the urge to eat while overtired was "keeping my strength up."