Sleep, Memory and Synaptic Plasticity
Over the years there has been growing interest among the scientific community in investigating sleep and how it affects the memory and other brain functions. It is now well established that sleep helps in memory consolidation and induction of neural plast
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Sleep, Memory and Synaptic Plasticity
Sushil K. Jha • Vibha M. Jha Editors
Sleep, Memory and Synaptic Plasticity
Editors Sushil K. Jha Sleep Research Laboratory, School of Life Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India
Vibha M. Jha Sleep Research Laboratory, School of Life Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India
ISBN 978-981-13-2813-8 ISBN 978-981-13-2814-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2814-5
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Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
Mahatma Gandhi
A spiritual chant in Indian mythology for a good night’s sleep:
Ya Devi Sarva bhuteshu Nidra Roopen Sanstithah Namastasyai Namastasyai Namastasyai Namo Namah (O Goddess, you are omnipresent. You also exist in sleep. I bow to you.)
Preface
Most animals spend a significant amount of time in sleep, yet its core functions are mostly unknown. There is increasing evidence suggesting that sleep helps in memory consolidation and induction of neural plasticity. In several studies, it has been demonstrated that short-term deprivation of either total sleep or rapid eye movement (REM) sleep alone soon after a learning task induces memory deficit. Quantitative and qualitative changes in sleep architecture after different training tasks further suggest that discrete memory types may require a specific sleep stage(s) for optimal memory consolidation. For example, in rodents, non-REM (NREM) sleep, slowwave activity, and sleep spindle density during NREM sleep increased af
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