ArticleCortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior2016
Slow wave sleep and accelerated forgetting.
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- Does epileptic activity impair sleep-related memory consolidation in epilepsy? A critical and systematic review.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Mechanistic insights into the interaction between epilepsy and sleep.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2025Review
- Recurring memory reactivation: The offline component of learning.Neuropsychologia · 2024Article
- Impaired episodic verbal memory recall after 1 week and elevated forgetting in children after mild traumatic brain injury - results from a short-term longitudinal study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The effects of slow wave sleep characteristics on semantic, episodic, and procedural memory in people with epilepsy.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Epilepsy and sleep characteristics are associated with diminished 24-h memory retention in older adults with epilepsy.Epilepsia · 2023Article
- Systematic Review of Accelerated Long-term Forgetting in Children and Adolescents With Neuropediatric Diseases.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2022Review
- A Review of Accelerated Long-Term Forgetting in Epilepsy.Brain sciences · 2020Review
- Sleep deprivation induces fragmented memory loss.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Infraslow oscillations in human sleep spindle activity.Journal of neuroscience methods · 2019Article
- Encoding-related brain activity and accelerated forgetting in transient epileptic amnesia.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2019Article
- The evolution of accelerated long-term forgetting: Evidence from the TIME study.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2019Article
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Abstract
We investigated whether the benefit of slow wave sleep (SWS) for memory consolidation typically observed in healthy individuals is disrupted in people with accelerated long-term forgetting (ALF) due to epilepsy. SWS is thought to play an active role in declarative memory in healthy individuals and, furthermore, electrographic epileptiform activity is often more prevalent during SWS than during wakefulness or other sleep stages. We studied the relationship between SWS and the benefit of sleep for memory retention using a word-pair associates task. In both the ALF and the healthy control groups, sleep conferred a memory benefit. However, the relationship between the amount of SWS and sleep-related memory benefits differed significantly between the groups. In healthy participants, the amount of SWS correlated positively with sleep-related memory benefits. In stark contrast, the more SWS, the smaller the sleep-related memory benefit in the ALF group. Therefore, contrary to its role in healthy people, SWS-associated brain activity appears to be deleterious for memory in patients with ALF.
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