Sleep, Memory and Synaptic Plasticity
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Beschreibung
Over the years there has been growing interest among the scientific community in investigating sleep and how it affects the memory and other brain functions. It is now well established that sleep helps in memory consolidation and induction of neural plasticity, and that short-term deprivation of either total sleep or rapid eye movement sleep alone can induce memory deficits very quickly. Quantitative and qualitative changes in sleep architecture after different training tasks further suggest that discrete memory types may require specific sleep stage/s for optimal memory consolidation, and studies indicate that sleep deprivation alters synaptic plasticity and membrane excitability in the hippocampal neurons and synaptic up-scaling in the cortical neurons. Further, sleep alteration during pregnancy may increase the risk of depression and adversely affect maternal-child relationships, parenting practices, family functioning, and children's development and general wellbeing.
This book coherently discusses all these aspects, with a particular focus on the possible role of sleep in memory consolidation and synaptic plasticity. It also highlights the detrimental effects of sleep loss on mental health, the immune system and cognition.
This book is a valuable reference resource for students and researchers working in the area of sleep, memory, or neuronal plasticity.
Over the years there has been growing interest among the scientific community in investigating sleep and how it affects the memory and other brain functions. It is now well established that sleep helps in memory consolidation and induction of neural plasticity, and that short-term deprivation of either total sleep or rapid eye movement sleep alone can induce memory deficits very quickly. Quantitative and qualitative changes in sleep architecture after different training tasks further suggest that discrete memory types may require specific sleep stage/s for optimal memory consolidation, and studies indicate that sleep deprivation alters synaptic plasticity and membrane excitability in the hippocampal neurons and synaptic up-scaling in the cortical neurons. Further, sleep alteration during pregnancy may increase the risk of depression and adversely affect maternal-child relationships, parenting practices, family functioning, and children's development and general wellbeing.
This book coherently discusses all these aspects, with a particular focus on the possible role of sleep in memory consolidation and synaptic plasticity. It also highlights the detrimental effects of sleep loss on mental health, the immune system and cognition.
This book is a valuable reference resource for students and researchers working in the area of sleep, memory, or neuronal plasticity.
A detail information on evolution and functions of sleep would help readers and researchers to know about sleep in depth Analysis of the impact of acute or chronic sleep loss in the progression of lifestyle diseases such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, etc would be useful for the clinicians to manage these diseases Approximately 100 illustrations and tables are expected to help the readers to grasp the content in more comprehensive manner
Autor*in
Sushil K. Jha
Themen in »Sleep, Memory and Synaptic Plasticity«
Learning and Memory NREM and REM Sleep Phylogenetic Evolution of Sleep Sleep Disorders Synaptic Plasticity