Sleep and Memory
What is the easiest way to strengthen your memories? Sleep!
WebMD Medical News reported at the end of April that Jeffrey Ellenbogen, MD, a neurologist and fellow in sleep research at Harvard Medical School, has found some interesting connections between sleep and memory.
"This is the first study to show that sleep protects memories from interference," Ellenbogen says in an American Academy of Neurology news release.
"These results provide important insights into how the sleeping brain interacts with memories: It appears to strengthen them," he says. "Perhaps, then, sleep disorders might worsen memory problems seen in dementia."
Ellenbogen's research shows that those who were asked to memorize word pairs and then were distracted by another set of word pairs were able to repeat the first words more accurately after a good night's rest.
That is to say, "sleeping on it" prevented a distraction to the memory task, and could be useful for understanding how memory works.
So does this mean that we should all commit something to memory and then take a nap?
Maybe!
Related Topics: Technorati Tags: sleep, memory, naps, health and wellness
WebMD Medical News reported at the end of April that Jeffrey Ellenbogen, MD, a neurologist and fellow in sleep research at Harvard Medical School, has found some interesting connections between sleep and memory.
"This is the first study to show that sleep protects memories from interference," Ellenbogen says in an American Academy of Neurology news release.
"These results provide important insights into how the sleeping brain interacts with memories: It appears to strengthen them," he says. "Perhaps, then, sleep disorders might worsen memory problems seen in dementia."
Ellenbogen's research shows that those who were asked to memorize word pairs and then were distracted by another set of word pairs were able to repeat the first words more accurately after a good night's rest.
That is to say, "sleeping on it" prevented a distraction to the memory task, and could be useful for understanding how memory works.
So does this mean that we should all commit something to memory and then take a nap?
Maybe!
Related Topics: Technorati Tags: sleep, memory, naps, health and wellness
1 Comments:
It seems that this day in time everyone is having problems with sleeping and memory. This was the problemt that was going on with my grandfather about 6months to a year ago. He was having trouble sleeping, and therefore he was so tired the next day that he couldnt even remember where he had put his glasses when they were right by the bed. The doctors ran test after test but couldnt find anything wrong with him and therefor couldnt give him anything to help his non sleepingness. I decided to do a little research of my own. This is when I ran across the PIONAIR Air Treatment System. One of my co-workers told me about how they saw the unit on a television program and bought one for themselves. She said that it had helped her sleep much better and she woke up in the mornings feeling refreshed and ready to start her day. She gave me the website where she orderd it from, so I decided to order one for my grandfather. I ordered him one for a christmas present and he opened it and was like an air treatment system? I then told him the story about my friend so he decided he would try it. He plugged it up in his bedroom that night and has used it ever since. He says the same thing that my friend says about how he wakes up feeling alert and ready to go! Check out their website at www.pionair.net and try one today! Im saving up my money to buy one of my own soon!
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