Dream Sleep and Forgetting (IMAGE)

NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Dream Sleep and Forgetting

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A team of Japanese and U.S. NIH-funded researchers studied how the activity of neurons found deep inside the mouse brain may control forgetting during REM sleep.

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Courtesy of Yamanaka lab, Nagoya University, Japan.

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