From the September 2016 issue of Massachusetts General Hospital's Mind, Mood, & Memory (MMM)
Newsbriefs: REM Sleep; Anxiety; New Brainwave Test
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Dream Stage of Sleep Spurs Memory Formation REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, the stage of sleep in which dreaming occurs, plays an important role in memory formation, according to animal research described online May 13, 2016 in the journal Science. Researchers put two groups of mice through a memory exercise. Following the exercise, the scientists […]