Not Sleeping Beauty Can Damage Brain Memory

Not Sleeping Beauty, If you want to have long-term memory, and thengo to sleep quite soundly. Intermittent sleep soundly alias could not affect the brain’s ability to remember and build memory.

A new study finds that people who wake up in the middle of the night because sleep is not restful or just having a baby would be hard to remember what had happened.

“Continuity of sleep is one of the main factors that affect a variety of pathological conditions affected by the impact on memory, including Alzheimer’s and other age-related cognitive deficits,” said Dr. Luis de Lecea from Stanford University, as reported by BBC News.

During the day, the human brain will collect memories to all events. At some point, the brain must sort out what happened during the day and some things will be ‘locked’ as a permanent memory.

“There are some things we need to ‘lock’ as a permanent memory that hard,”Dr. Neil Stanley, sleep expert and former chairman of the British Sleep Society. According to Drs. Stanley, a process that occurs when people fast asleep. So anything that affects sleep will have an effect on memory storageprocesses.

Sleep is intermittent usually common in women who have babies, people who areaddicted to alcohol and sleep apnea, a condition in which the throat narrows and repeatedly closes during sleep, thereby limiting the oxygen and cause the patient to wake up.

The study, led by Dr. Lecea is using mice, but it is also relevant in humans are not sleeping soundly. In the study researchers send pulses of light directly into the brains of mice when they were asleep. This means it can interfere with sleep mice without affecting total sleep time or sleep composition.

It uses a technique called optogenetics, where specific cells are genetically engineered so that it can be controlled by light. Researchers are targeting the type of brain cell that plays an important role in the turn between the level of sleep and wakefulness.

The mice were then placed in a box with two objects, one of which they have encountered. Keep in mind, the mice will naturally spend more time examining the new object. But when his sleep disturbed, the mice showed an interest in both objects, but one they’ve encountered. This suggests that the rats had impaired memory due to disrupted sleep.

“We conclude that regardless of the amount of total sleep or sleep intensity, a minimum unit of disrupted sleep is very important for memory consolidation,” explains Dr. Lecea.