{"id":201773,"date":"2024-12-17T01:22:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/breathing-coordinates-brain-rhythms-for-memory-consolidation-during-sleep"},"modified":"2024-12-17T01:22:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T07:22:09","slug":"breathing-coordinates-brain-rhythms-for-memory-consolidation-during-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/breathing-coordinates-brain-rhythms-for-memory-consolidation-during-sleep","title":{"rendered":"Breathing coordinates brain rhythms for memory consolidation during sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breathing-coordinates-brain-rhythms-for-memory-consolidation-during-sleep.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just as a conductor coordinates different instruments in an orchestra to produce a symphony, breathing coordinates hippocampal brain waves to strengthen memory while we sleep, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time breathing rhythms during sleep have been linked to these hippocampal brain waves\u2014called slow waves, spindles and ripples\u2014in humans. Scientists knew these waves were linked to memory but their underlying driver was unknown. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2405395121\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo strengthen memories, three special neural oscillations emerge and synchronize in the hippocampus during sleep, but they were thought to come and go at random times,\u201d said senior study author Christina Zelano, professor of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. \u201cWe discovered that they are coordinated by breathing rhythms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as a conductor coordinates different instruments in an orchestra to produce a symphony, breathing coordinates hippocampal brain waves to strengthen memory while we sleep, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. This is the first time breathing rhythms during sleep have been linked to these hippocampal brain waves\u2014called slow waves, spindles and ripples\u2014in humans. Scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201773","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}