A good night’s sleep is how memories are made

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Sleep’s memory role discovered

By James Gallagher, Health and science reporter,
BBC News, June 5th, 2014

The mechanism by which a good night’s sleep improves learning and memory has been discovered by scientists.

The team in China and the US used advanced microscopy to witness new connections between brain cells – synapses – forming during sleep.

Their study, published in the journal Science, showed even intense training could not make up for lost sleep.

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