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When you learn something new, the best way to remember it is to sleep on it. That\u2019s because sleeping helps strengthen memories you\u2019ve formed throughout the day. It also helps to link new memories to earlier ones. You might even come up with creative new ideas while you slumber.<\/p>\n

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What happens to memories in your brain while you sleep? And how does lack of sleep affect your ability to learn and remember? National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded scientists have been gathering clues about the complex relationship between sleep and memory. Their findings might eventually lead to new approaches to help students learn or help older people hold onto memories as they age.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve learned that sleep before learning helps prepare your brain for initial formation of memories,\u201d says Dr. Matthew Walker, a sleep scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. \u201cAnd then, sleep after learning is essential to help save and cement that new information into the architecture of the brain, meaning that you\u2019re less likely to forget it.\u201d<\/p>\n

While you snooze, your brain cycles through different phases of sleep, including light sleep, deep sleep, and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, when dreaming often occurs. The cycles repeat about every 90 minutes.<\/p>\n

The non-REM stages of sleep seem to prime the brain for good learning the next day. If you haven\u2019t slept, your ability to learn new things could drop by up to 40 percent. \u201cYou can\u2019t pull an all-nighter and still learn effectively,\u201d Walker says. Lack of sleep affects a part of the brain called the hippocampus, which is key for making new memories.<\/p>\n

You accumulate many memories, moment by moment, while you\u2019re awake. Most will be forgotten during the day. \u201cWhen we first form memories, they\u2019re in a very raw and fragile form,\u201d says sleep expert Dr. Robert Stickgold of Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n

But when you doze off, \u201csleep seems to be a privileged time when the brain goes back through recent memories and decides both what to keep and what not to keep,\u201d Stickgold explains. \u201cDuring a night of sleep, some memories are strengthened.\u201d Research has shown that memories of certain procedures, like playing a melody on a piano, can actually improve while you sleep.<\/p>\n

Memories seem to become more stable in the brain during the deep stages of sleep. After that, REM\u2014the most active stage of sleep\u2014seems to play a role in linking together related memories, sometimes in unexpected ways. That\u2019s why a full night of sleep may help with problem-solving. REM sleep also helps you process emotional memories, which can reduce the intensity of emotions.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s well known that sleep patterns tend to change as we age. Unfortunately, the deep memory-strengthening stages of sleep start to decline in our late 30s. A study by Walker and colleagues found that adults older than 60 had a 70 percent loss of deep sleep compared to young adults aged 18 to 25. Older adults had a harder time remembering things the next day, and memory impairment was linked to reductions in deep sleep. The researchers are now exploring options for enhancing deep stages of sleep in this older age group.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we have limited medical treatments for memory impairment in aging, sleep actually is a potentially treatable target,\u201d Walker says. \u201cBy restoring sleep, it might be possible to improve memory in older people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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