{"id":184,"date":"2014-06-08T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T05:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodhabitsgoodstudents.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2014-06-08T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T05:09:08","slug":"sleep-and-memory-more-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/2014\/06\/08\/sleep-and-memory-more-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep and memory: more evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The mechanism by which a good night&#8217;s sleep improves learning and memory has been discovered by scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The team in China and the US used advanced microscopy to witness new connections between brain cells &#8211; synapses &#8211; forming during sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Their study,\u00c2\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #4a7194;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1126\/science.1249098\">published in the journal Science<\/a>, showed even intense training could not make up for lost sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said it was an elegant and significant study, which uncovered the mechanisms of memory.<\/p>\n<p>It is well known that sleep plays an important role in memory and learning. But what actually happens inside the brain has been a source of considerable debate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article here:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-27695144\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-27695144<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: The mechanism by which a good night&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-habits","category-study-habits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/goodhabits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}