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. 2020 Mar 9;30(5):R234-R236.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.038.

Memory: Necessary for Deep Sleep?

Jared M Saletin  1
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Memory: Necessary for Deep Sleep?

Jared M Saletin. Curr Biol. .
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Patients with hippocampus lesions suffer profound failures in episodic memory. Sleep plays a key role in processing hippocampus-dependent memories. Lesioning this structure may fundamentally alter the architecture of human sleep, posing fundamental questions about the link between sleep and memory processing.

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