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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

A study has given new insights into how sleep contributes to brain plasticity – the ability for our brain to change and reorganise itself – and could pave the way for new ways to help people with learning and memory disorders.

Researchers at the Humboldt and Charité Universities in Berlin, led by Dr Julie Seibt from the University of Surrey, used cutting edge techniques to record activity in a particular region of brain cells that is responsible for holding new information – the dendrites.

The study, published in Nature Communications, found that activity in dendrites increases when we sleep, and that this increase is linked to specific brain waves that are seen to be key to how we form memories.

Julie Seibt, et. al. Cortical dendritic activity correlates with spindle-rich oscillations during sleep in rodents. Nature Communications, 2017; 8 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00735-w

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