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Scientists just watched the brain replay the day’s events during sleep — tiny overnight bursts of activity that quietly lock new memories into place
While you sleep tonight, your brain will quietly replay pieces of your day. Not like a movie, and not in order, but in rapid, ...
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Scientists just watched the brain flush out its own waste during deep sleep — pulsing waves of fluid that may explain why lost sleep wrecks your memory
You wake up after a terrible night of sleep, and the fog is immediate: names slip away, your train of thought derails ...
Jena, Germany, 1924: Working in near-isolation and with painstaking tediousness, the psychiatrist Hans Berger observes rhythmic electrical activity from the scalp of human subjects. He is convinced ...
Pea-sized brain blobs are a chatty bunch. Packed with neurons that spark with electrical activity, brain organoids—or “mini brains”—are a now popular way to study the human brain. Some organoids model ...
Place cells are neurons in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, that help the brain keep track of the body’s location in space. Arrays of these cells form a cognitive map, firing off electrical ...
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