Matthew Walker: Why We Sleep
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Sleep Is a Missing Piece in Alzheimer's Explanatory Puzzle
As we get older, our learning and memory abilities begin to fade. The disruption of deep sleep is an underappreciated factor that contributes to cognitive decline or memory decline in Alzheimer's disease as well. We are developing a method based on this called direct current brain stimulation. If you apply this stimulation during sleep in young healthy adults, not only can you amplify the size of those deep sleep brain waves, but in doing so, we can almost double the amount of memory benefit from sleep.
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