Larval Population Density Alters Adult Sleep in Wild-Type Drosophila melanogaster but Not in Amnesiac Mutant Flies by Michael W. Chi, Leslie C. Griffith, Christopher G. Vecsey

“…Larval population density did not affect sleep in female flies that were mutant for amnesiac, which has been shown to be required for normal memory consolidation, adult sleep regulation, and brain development. …”
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Stargazin Dephosphorylation Mediates Homeostatic Synaptic Downscaling of Excitatory Synapses by Susana R. Louros, Gladys L. Caldeira, Ana Luísa Carvalho, Ana Luísa Carvalho

“…Homeostatic scaling down of excitatory synapses has been shown to occur during sleep, and to contribute to synapse remodeling and memory consolidation, but the underlying mechanisms are only partially known. …”
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A failure of sleep-dependent consolidation of visuoperceptual procedural learning in young adults with ADHD by Ranin Ballan, Simon J. Durrant, Robert Stickgold, Alexandra Morgan, Dara S. Manoach, Yafit Gabay

“…On this basis, the present study tested the hypothesis that young adults with ADHD have altered sleep-dependent procedural memory consolidation. Participants with ADHD and neurotypicals were trained on a visual discrimination task that has been shown to benefit from sleep. …”
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Pharmacological interventions during the process of reconsolidation of aversive memories: A systematic review by Lívia Maria Bolsoni, Antonio Waldo Zuardi

“…Reconsolidation is the return of a memory to a transient state of lability, following memory consolidation, that can occur when memories are evoked. …”
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Goal Commitments and the Content of Thoughts and Dreams: Basic Principles by Eric eKlinger

“…The article briefly summarizes neurocognitive findings that relate to mind-wandering and evidence regarding adverse effects of mind-wandering on task performance as well as evidence suggesting adaptive functions in regard to creative problem-solving, planning, resisting delay discounting, and memory consolidation.…”
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Network-wide reorganization of procedural memory during NREM sleep revealed by fMRI by Shahabeddin Vahdat, Stuart Fogel, Habib Benali, Julien Doyon

“…Our results demonstrate that NREM sleep is necessary for two complementary processes: the restoration and reorganization of newly-learned information during sleep, which underlie human motor memory consolidation.…”
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Comprehensive behavioral analysis of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV knockout mice. by Keizo Takao, Koichi Tanda, Kenji Nakamura, Jiro Kasahara, Kazuki Nakao, Motoya Katsuki, Kazuo Nakanishi, Nobuyuki Yamasaki, Keiko Toyama, Minami Adachi, Masahiro Umeda, Tsutomu Araki, Kohji Fukunaga, Hisatake Kondo, Hiroyuki Sakagami, Tsuyoshi Miyakawa

“…CREB is a key transcription factor in synaptic plasticity and memory consolidation. To elucidate the behavioral effects of CaMKIV deficiency, we subjected CaMKIV knockout (CaMKIV KO) mice to a battery of behavioral tests. …”
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Potential Benefits of Daytime Naps on Consecutive Days for Motor Adaptation Learning by Yusuke Murata, Masaki Nishida, Atsushi Ichinose, Shutaro Suyama, Sumi Youn, Kohei Shioda

“…A single nap has been shown to ameliorate motor memory learning, although the effect of consecutive napping on motor memory consolidation remains unclear. This study aimed to explore the effect of daytime napping over multiple days on motor memory learning. …”
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Effects of Targeted Memory Reactivation on Cortical Networks by Lorena Santamaria, Anne C. M. Koopman, Tristan Bekinschtein, Penelope Lewis

“…Sleep is a complex physiological process with an important role in memory consolidation characterised by a series of spatiotemporal changes in brain activity and connectivity. …”
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Metabolic mysteries of the mind: Investigating type 3 diabetes by Dar Mohd Altaf, Qadrie Zulfkar, Maqbool Mudasir, Ara Irfat, Qadir Afshana

“…Insulin, known for its role in regulating glucose levels, also plays a vital part in brain function, supporting cognition and memory consolidation. Emerging studies propose that insulin resistance, a characteristic of type 2 diabetes, may extend to the brain, affecting glucose metabolism and neural activity. …”
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Psychological Diffusions: The Cognitive Turn in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Genie Nicole Giaimo

“…In the narrative, Alison articulates a number of cognitive theories, such as pattern making and theory of mind, as well as neurological concepts such as memory consolidation and reconsolidation that better account for the events of the text — and the impulse to tell life narrative — than psychoanalysis. …”
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What Is Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis Good for? by Gerd Kempermann, Gerd Kempermann

“…Neurogenesis-dependent plasticity also improves memory consolidation. This relates to the surprising involvement of adult neurogenesis in forgetting, which is also hypothesized to be critically relevant for negative plasticity, for example in post-traumatic stress disorder. …”
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Acute Effects of Ethanol on Hippocampal Spatial Representation and Offline Reactivation by Kosaku Miyake, Saichiro Yagi, Yuki Aoki, Yu Shikano, Yuji Ikegaya, Yuji Ikegaya, Takuya Sasaki, Takuya Sasaki

“…On the other hand, ethanol administration did not significantly alter the frequency of hippocampal sharp-wave ripple (SWRs) and synchronous spike patterns during resting periods, suggesting that offline memory consolidation and retrieval mechanisms underpinned by hippocampal neuronal synchronization are not strongly affected by ethanol. …”
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Optogenetic dissection of amygdala functioning by Ryan eLalumiere

“…Findings from such studies have provided evidence that particular patterns of activity in basolateral amygdala glutamatergic neurons are related to memory consolidation processes, while other work has indicated the critical nature of amygdala inputs to the prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens in regulating behavior dependent on those downstream structures. …”
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The Common Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Human Long-Term Memory and Cognitive Control Processes by Taehyun Kim, Sejin Kim, Joonyoung Kang, Joonyoung Kang, Minjae Kwon, Sue-Hyun Lee, Sue-Hyun Lee

“…In particular, a lack of sleep has been reported to disrupt memory consolidation and cognitive control functions. Here, focusing on long-term memory and cognitive control processes, we review the consistency and reliability of the results of previous studies of sleep deprivation effects on behavioral performance with variations in the types of stimuli and tasks. …”
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Rescue of sharp wave-ripples and prevention of network hyperexcitability in the ventral but not the dorsal hippocampus of a rat model of fragile X syndrome by Leonidas J. Leontiadis, George Trompoukis, Giota Tsotsokou, Athina Miliou, Panagiotis Felemegkas, Costas Papatheodoropoulos

“…The loss of fragile X protein affects brain oscillations, however, the effects of FXS on hippocampal sharp wave-ripples (SWRs), an endogenous hippocampal pattern contributing to memory consolidation have not been sufficiently clarified. …”
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Computational analysis of network activity and spatial reach of sharp wave-ripples. by Sadullah Canakci, Muhammed Faruk Toy, Ahmet Fatih Inci, Xin Liu, Duygu Kuzum

“…SPW-Rs occurring in the hippocampus are suggested to play essential roles in memory consolidation as well as information transfer to the neocortex. …”
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Sleep-related motor skill consolidation and generalizability after physical practice, motor imagery, and action observation by Adrien Conessa, Ursula Debarnot, Isabelle Siegler, Arnaud Boutin

“…Our findings reveal that a temporal cluster-based organization of sleep spindles underlies motor memory consolidation in all groups, albeit with distinct behavioral outcomes. …”
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Reliable Analysis of Single-Unit Recordings from the Human Brain under Noisy Conditions: Tracking Neurons over Hours. by Johannes Niediek, Jan Boström, Christian E Elger, Florian Mormann

“…Such questions regard, for example, neuronal mechanisms of learning and memory consolidation, and the generation of epileptic seizures. …”
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Reduced susceptibility to interference in the consolidation of motor memory before adolescence. by Shoshi Dorfberger, Esther Adi-Japha, Avi Karni

“…However, the ability to co-consolidate different, successive motor experiences, demonstrated in both the 9 and 12-year-olds, diminishes after puberty, suggesting that a more selective memory consolidation process takes over from the childhood one. …”
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