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REM sleep deprivation: The wrong paradigm leading to wrong conclusions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Jan Born  and
Steffen Gais
Jan Born
Affiliation:
Clinical Neuroendocrinology, Medical University of Lübeck, 23538 Lübeck, [email protected]
Steffen Gais
Affiliation:
Clinical Neuroendocrinology, Medical University of Lübeck, 23538 Lübeck, [email protected]
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Abstract

There are obvious flaws in REM sleep suppression paradigms that do not allow any conclusion to be drawn either pro or contra the REM sleep-memory hypothesis. However, less intrusive investigations of REM sleep suggest that this sleep stage or its adjunct neuroendocrine characteristics exert a facilitating influence on certain aspects of ongoing memory formation during sleep.

[Nielsen; Vertes & Eastman]

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2000 , pp. 912 - 913
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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