by University of Lausanne Locus coeruleus (LC) activity patterns across wakefulness, NREMS and REMS. Credit: Alejandro Osorio-Forero et al Researchers at the University of Lausanne have identified a novel role for the brain’s “locus coeruleus” in sleep and its disruptions. This brain region facilitates the transition between NREM and REM sleep states while maintaining an unconscious...
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How the brain learns during sleep
Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Bonn have investigated which activity patterns occur in the brain when people remember or forget things. They were interested in how the brain replays and stores during sleep what it had learned before. The team recorded the brain activity of epilepsy patients who had electrodes implanted into...