To Sleep, Perchance to Forget

sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 1 week (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

A new study has found that older rats seem to replay previous events less and, as a result, have more trouble remembering than younger animals.

Could those memory problems be due to a decline in the brain's replay during sleep? How can these results be extrapolated to humans?

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