{"id":8980,"date":"2017-12-18T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8980"},"modified":"2017-12-18T08:32:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T13:32:16","slug":"older-adults-forgetfulness-tied-to-faulty-brain-rhythms-in-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8980","title":{"rendered":"Older Adults&#8217; Forgetfulness Tied To Faulty Brain Rhythms In Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Older brains may forget more because they lose their rhythm at night.<\/p>\n<p>During deep sleep, older people have less coordination between two brain waves that are important to saving new memories, a team reports in the journal\u00a0<em>Neuron.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like a drummer that&#8217;s perhaps just one beat off the rhythm,&#8221; says\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.berkeley.edu\/people\/matthew-p-walker\">Matt Walker<\/a>, one of the paper&#8217;s authors and a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. &#8220;The aging brain just doesn&#8217;t seem to be able to synchronize its brain waves effectively.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/12\/18\/571120472\/older-adults-forgetfulness-tied-to-faulty-brain-rhythms-in-sleep?utm_campaign=KHN:%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=59450073&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_EAdt_rdB10rLa1uVMcA9z4rYdCES6a_tr3DCQIp1sk-Y0ZPBy3CAfENYZe8FEyileJbpXfq1EWh-FoU3ive3EyxH7fQ&amp;_hsmi=59450073\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) Older brains may forget more because they lose their rhythm at night. During deep sleep,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8981,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8980\/revisions\/8981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}