DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION
STUDY FINDS DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION COULD IMPROVE MEMORY CONSOLIDATION
Published By Livemint | 10 Jun, 2023
New research
A new research indicates that deep-brain stimulation during sleep could one day help with memory disorders like Alzheimer's disease
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Memory consolidation
It also showed that targeted deep-brain stimulation during the sleeping hours could improve memory consolidation
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Study
The research was conducted by UCLA Health and Tel Aviv University scientists and was published in Nature Neuroscience on June 1
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Dominant theory for sleep
The dominant theory for sleep argues that our brain converts new information into long-term memories during shuteye
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Reserarch
Researchers tested this theory in the brains of 18 epilepsy patients at UCLA Health
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Results
They found that individuals tested much better in memory tests when they received targeted electrical stimulation during the night
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Memory consolidationn
They also found that information in the brain flowed between hippocampus and throughout the cortex
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