26 years of research on sleep functions unveil discoveries in dream study, memory consolidation, and immune response improvement.
26 years of life spent asleep, scientists have tried to understand sleep functions since ancient Greece. Recent breakthroughs in sleep research include: 1) mainstreaming the neuroscientific study of dreaming, 2) a 2017 US study waking participants at night to recall dreams, 3) discovering sleep helps with memory consolidation, and 4) finding that deep sleep improves the body's immune response.
May 30, 2024
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