How aging affects sleep-dependent memory consolidation?

How aging affects sleep-dependent memory consolidation?

Sleep plays multiple functions among which energy conservation or recuperative processes. Besides, growing evidence indicate that sleep plays also a major role in memory consolidation, a process by which recently acquired and labile memory traces are progressively strengthened into more permanent an...

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Main Authors: Caroline eHarand, Françoise eBertran, Franck eDoidy, Fabian eGuénolé, Béatrice eDesgranges, Francis eEustache, Géraldine eRAUCHS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
Aging
Hippocampus
Sleep
memory consolidation
episodic memory
procedural memory
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2012.00008/full

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