{"id":194609,"date":"2024-08-15T19:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T00:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/sleep-resets-neurons-for-new-memories-the-next-day-study-finds"},"modified":"2024-08-15T19:23:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T00:23:51","slug":"sleep-resets-neurons-for-new-memories-the-next-day-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/sleep-resets-neurons-for-new-memories-the-next-day-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Sleep resets neurons for new memories the next day, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sleep-resets-neurons-for-new-memories-the-next-day-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While everyone knows that a good night\u2019s sleep restores energy, a new Cornell University study finds it resets another vital function: memory.<\/p>\n<p>Learning or experiencing new things activates neurons in the hippocampus, a region of the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> vital for memory. Later, while we sleep, those same neurons repeat the same pattern of activity, which is how the brain consolidates those memories that are then stored in a large area called the cortex. But how is it that we can keep learning new things for a lifetime without using up all of our neurons?<\/p>\n<p>A study, \u201cA Hippocampal Circuit Mechanism to Balance Memory Reactivation During Sleep,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.ado5708\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science<\/i>, finds at certain times during <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/deep+sleep\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">deep sleep<\/a>, certain parts of the hippocampus go silent, allowing those neurons to reset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While everyone knows that a good night\u2019s sleep restores energy, a new Cornell University study finds it resets another vital function: memory. Learning or experiencing new things activates neurons in the hippocampus, a region of the brain vital for memory. Later, while we sleep, those same neurons repeat the same pattern of activity, which is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}