Sleep is your superpower | Matt Walker
TED Health
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Sleep Deprivation and Memory Loss in Aging
Sleep deprivation shuts down your memory in box, and any new incoming files, they were just being bounced. The combined quality of these deep sleep brain waves acts like a file transfer mechanism at night,. shifting memories from a short term, vulnerable reserv to a more permanent, long termed storage sight within the brain. And it is important that we understand what during sleep actually transacts these memory benefits because there are real medical and society implications.
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