We refer to this as sleep dependent memory consolidation and it involves coordination between several areas of the brain. This process of transferring memories happens during sleeping. That memory then appears on the surface of the brain and becomes a long-term memory. When we make a memory, it starts deep in our brain as a short-term memory. Memory loss significantly decreases the quality of life for people who experience it, Dr. We also discussed our understanding of the link between memory and sleep. Baxter about what his research means for patients suffering from brain diseases. This grant received funding from the McKnight Brain Research Foundation and American Brain Foundation, in collaboration with the American Academy of Neurology. His research is made possible by the American Brain Foundation’s Next Generation Research Grants program. “My hopes for this research are to really understand how memories are consolidated during sleep, with the overall aim of developing interventions to help people that have memory problems,” he says. But in patients with brain diseases, like Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia, memory loss can be severe.īryan Baxter, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital researching memory loss and interventions to improve memory during sleep. A Next Generation Research Grant funds research into the memory consolidation process and an intervention to improve itĬhanges in memory can happen in normal, healthy aging.
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