Fight brain decay with a good night’s rest: Age-related memory loss may be caused by SLEEP issues, new study finds

A good night’s sleep can provide a person with a lot of benefits, aside from feeling refreshed and raring to go. A research from the University of California, Berkeley suggests that “quality” sleep may help improve memory development , especially for older adults. People have always underrated sleep, despite it playing an integral role in memory creation, as well as shifting from short-term to long-term memory. When people deprive themselves of or are unable to sleep, then memory consolidation is impeded. This is particularly true for older adults, according to the research team , who published their findings in the journal Neuron. They discovered that older brains tend to forget more because their brain struggles with, and sometimes loses, coordination with two brain waves that are important to memory formation. “It’s like a drummer that’s perhaps just one beat off the rhythm,” explained Matt Walker, a co-author of the study and a professor at UC Berkeley . “The aging brain just doesn’t seem to be able to synchronize its brainwaves effectively.” For the study, around 50 participants made up of both older and young adults were asked to learn at least 120 pairs of words before they slept. Electrodes were then placed on their heads prior to sleeping to monitor the electrical waves that the brain makes during deep sleep. In particular, they studied the interaction between slow waves and faster waves, called sleep spindles, to determine the participant’s recall was in the morning. Mother Nature’s micronutrient secret : Organic Broccoli Sprout Capsules now available, delivering 280mg of high-density nutrition, including the extraordinary "sulforaphane" and "glucosinolate" nutrients found only in cruciferous healing foods. Every lot laboratory tested. See availability here. “When those two brain waves were perfectly coinciding, that’s when you seem to get this fantastic transfer of memory […]

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