Memory: Necessary for Deep Sleep?

Curr Biol

Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA; E.P. Bradley Hospital Sleep Research Laboratory, Providence, RI 02906, USA. Electronic address:

Published: March 2020

Patients with hippocampus lesions suffer profound failures in episodic memory. Sleep plays a key role in processing hippocampus-dependent memories. Lesioning this structure may fundamentally alter the architecture of human sleep, posing fundamental questions about the link between sleep and memory processing.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.038DOI Listing

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