Does abnormal non-rapid eye movement sleep impair declarative memory consolidation?. Disturbed thalamic functions in sleep and memory processing.

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 389-394

  Lu, William ^a   Göder, Robert ^b  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Declarative memory consolidation; Fibromyalgia syndrome; Hippocampus; NREM sleep; Schizophrenia; Sleep spindles; Slow wave sleep; Thalamocortical network

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DIENCEPHALON; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EPISODIC MEMORY; FIBROMYALGIA; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATION; RECALL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP SPINDLE; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; VERBAL MEMORY;

HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; REM SLEEP PARASOMNIAS; SLEEP; THALAMUS;

EID: 84861726977     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: 15322955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2011.08.001     Document Type: Review

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