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Slow wave sleep and accelerated forgetting

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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 ...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1016/j.cortex.2016.08.013

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University of Oxford
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MSD
Department:
Clinical Neurosciences
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Clinical Neurosciences
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Butler, C
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MR/K010395/1
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Atherton, K
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Elsevier
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Volume:
84
Pages:
80-89
Publication date:
2016-11-01
Acceptance date:
2016-08-29
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EISSN:
1973-8102
ISSN:
0010-9452
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English
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pubs:652108
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uuid:535486f7-fa41-448d-8f64-69d8dbc3dce9
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652108
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2016-12-05

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