{"id":2146,"date":"2012-03-30T16:13:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T20:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2012-03-30T19:16:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T23:16:40","slug":"study-suggests-sleep-disturbances-hurt-memory-consolidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/03\/study-suggests-sleep-disturbances-hurt-memory-consolidation\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests sleep disturbances hurt memory consolidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <em>PLoS <\/em>press release via MedicalXPress:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"sleep disturbance\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/Insomnia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"185\" \/>Sleep disturbance negatively impacts the memory consolidation and enhancement that usually occurs with a good night&#8217;s sleep<\/strong>, according to a study published Mar. 28 in the open access journal <em>PLoS ONE<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It is becoming widely accepted that sleep is crucial for cementing long-term memory, so in this new study, the researchers went a step further to investigate whether these beneficial effects only arise after some minimum amount of continuous sleep. The authors, led by Ina Djonlagic at Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital in Boston, found that <strong>patients with sleep apnea, which leads to sleep disturbances, showed significantly lower overnight improvement and plateau performance for a newly learned motor task than seen for the control group<\/strong>. Both groups had <strong>comparable initial learning performance during the training phase<\/strong>, suggesting that <strong>the overnight sleep disturbance was likely related to the subsequent poorer performance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Optimal overnight memory consolidation in humans requires a certain amount of sleep continuity independent of the total amount of sleep&#8221; conclude the authors.<\/p>\n<p><strong> More information:<\/strong> Djonlagic I, Saboisky J, Carusona A, Stickgold R, Malhotra A (2012) Increased Sleep Fragmentation Leads to Impaired Off-Line Consolidation of Motor Memories in Humans. <em>PLoS ONE<\/em> 7(3): e34106. doi:10.1371\/journal.pone.0034106<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the PLoS press release via MedicalXPress: Sleep disturbance negatively impacts the memory consolidation and enhancement that usually occurs with a good night&#8217;s sleep, according to a study published Mar&#8230;. <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/03\/study-suggests-sleep-disturbances-hurt-memory-consolidation\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,4],"tags":[19,12,362],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}