NOVEMBER 25TH, 2024POSTED BY ALEXANDRA BECKER – RICE U. (Credit: Getty Images) SHARE THIS ARTICLE You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. TAGS UNIVERSITY RICE UNIVERSITY New research could potentially change our fundamental understanding of how sleep boosts brainpower. While it’s well known that sleep enhances cognitive performance, the underlying neural mechanisms,...
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Breathing: The master clock of the sleeping brain
JANUARY 24, 2022 by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Credit: CC0 Public Domain Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich neuroscientists have shown that breathing coordinates neuronal activity throughout the brain during sleep and quiet. While we sleep, the brain is not switched off, but is busy with “saving” the important memories of the day. To achieve that,...
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What does the sleeping brain think about?
UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE We sleep on average one-third of our time. But what does the brain do during these long hours? Using an artificial intelligence approach capable of decoding brain activity during sleep, scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, were able to glimpse what we think about when we are asleep. By combining...