MetaFilter posts tagged with Brain and Sleep

Memory and Sleep

homunculus — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:55:42 -0800

Mapping Memory. "Turn the human brain upside down and all around to see how memories are saved (or lost)." National Geographic has a great interactive 3D map of the brain as part of an excellent feature on memory. The New York Times has a good article on the crucial role sleep plays in learning and memory. It's part of a special issue devoted to sleep. Via Neurophilosophy.

Dissociative fugue

homunculus — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:04:36 -0800

When a Brain Forgets Where Memory Is. Interesting article on dissociative fugue, the poorly understood memory disorder where people seem to forget who they are. [Via MindHacks.]

"Sleeplessness . . . befogs the reason, undermines the will, and the human being ceases to be himself, to be his own 'I.' "

orthogonality — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:00:25 -0800

Most everybody's asleep in Grover's Corners. There are a few lights on: Shorty Hawkins, down at the depot, has just watched the Albany train go by. And at the livery stable somebody's setting up late and talking. -- Yes, it's clearing up. There are the stars - doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings up there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. The strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest. Hm... Eleven o'clock in Grover's Corners. -- You get a good rest, too. Good night.

Science of Sleep

Gyan — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:28:53 -0800

Nature has a somewhat technical but free supplement on sleep