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Dr. Gina Poe: Use Sleep to Enhance Learning, Memory & Emotional State
Huberman Lab
The Locus Ceruleus and Adrenaline
The locus ceruleus is the brain's version of epinephrine or adrenaline. It helps us do a quick one trial learning and then a tonic activity during the day when you're just doing normal going about your normal concentration activities. When we go to sleep the locus or less slows and goes from about on average two hertz to about one hertz one cycle per second. The main thing that I think it's important for is the ability to erase and break down synapses that are no longer working for us. That'll hard drive. No thumb drive. You're racing your thumb drive. And then during REM sleep you need to refresh that thumb drive which realises off
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