{"id":202414,"date":"2024-12-26T01:25:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T07:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/according-to-researchers-your-breathing-patterns-could-hold-the-key-to-better-memory"},"modified":"2024-12-26T01:25:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T07:25:25","slug":"according-to-researchers-your-breathing-patterns-could-hold-the-key-to-better-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/according-to-researchers-your-breathing-patterns-could-hold-the-key-to-better-memory","title":{"rendered":"According to Researchers, Your Breathing Patterns Could Hold the Key to Better Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sEgPBYEhlyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new study from <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/northwestern-university\/\">Northwestern Medicine<\/a> reports that, much like a conductor harmonizes various instruments in an orchestra to create a symphony, breathing synchronizes hippocampal brain waves to enhance memory during sleep.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time breathing rhythms during sleep have been linked to these hippocampal brain waves \u2014 called slow waves, spindles, and ripples \u2014 in humans. Scientists knew these waves were linked to memory but their underlying driver was unknown.<\/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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from Northwestern Medicine reports that, much like a conductor harmonizes various instruments in an orchestra to create a symphony, breathing synchronizes hippocampal brain waves to enhance memory during sleep. This is the first time breathing rhythms during sleep have been linked to these hippocampal brain waves \u2014 called slow waves, spindles, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202414","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\/202414","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=202414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}