Study Uses Optogenetics to Mimic Deep-Sleep Brain Rhythms in Awake Mice, Boosting Memory
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Luis Prada
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison used optogenetics to recreate the brain rhythm of deep sleep in awake mice, providing some memory benefits typically associated with actual sleep. The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, suggests a potential future pathway for mimicking sleep's restorative effects without sleeping, though human applications remain distant.
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· 3 pulledSleep is great, but you know what's even better? Not sleeping.
Scientists may have found a way to give us all the benefits of sleep without actually going to sleep.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison used optogenetics, a technique that controls genetically modified brain cells with pulses of light, to recreate the brain rhythm of deep sleep in mice that were fully awake.
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