Sleep Is for Forgetting.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. The impact of the physical activity intervention on sleep in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2024
   Pooled it
2. The effect of zolpidem on memory consolidation over a night of sleep.Sleep · 2020
   Trial
3. Differential locus coeruleus-hippocampus interactions during offline states.eLife · 2026
   Article
4. Concurrent Presentation of Memory-Related Odours and Sounds Nullified Sleep Reactivation Benefits.Journal of sleep research · 2026
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5. REM sleep favors the restructuring of problem-related semantic associations.Communications biology · 2026
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6. When dreams feel real: the MÖBIUS model.Communications biology · 2026
   Review
7. Pre-sleep experiences shape neural activity and dream content in the sleeping brain.iScience · 2025
   Article
8. Both slow wave and rapid eye movement sleep contribute to emotional memory consolidation.Communications biology · 2025
   Article
9. REM refines and rescues memory representations: a new theory.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025
   Review
10. Top-down instruction outweighs emotional salience: nocturnal sleep physiology indicates selective memory consolidation.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025
    Article
11. Multi-region processing during sleep for memory and cognition.Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences · 2025
    Review
12. Memory engram stability and flexibility.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024
    Review
13. Coupling of Slow Oscillations in the Prefrontal and Motor Cortex Predicts Onset of Spindle Trains and Persistent Memory Reactivations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
    Article
14. Thalamocortical Dynamics during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep in the Mouse Somatosensory Pathway.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
    Article
15. Engram mechanisms of memory linking and identity.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2024
    Review
16. Sensational Dreams: The Prevalence of Sensory Experiences in Dreaming.Brain sciences · 2024
    Article
17. Evidence of an active role of dreaming in emotional memory processing shows that we dream to forget.Scientific reports · 2024
    Article
18. Overnight neuronal plasticity and adaptation to emotional distress.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2024
    Review
19. Mystery of the memory engram: History, current knowledge, and unanswered questions.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024
    Review
20. On the basis of sex and sleep: the influence of the estrous cycle and sex on sleep-wake behavior.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024
    Review

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Authors and funding

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