June 29, 2015

Max Cynader, the founding director of UBC’s Brain Research Centre, talks about the importance of sleep in keeping cognitive function healthy as people age.

“During sleep, you essentially replay some of the events of the day,” Cynader says, “It’s your hippocampus rebroadcasting it out back to the rest of your brain while you’re asleep, giving your neurons a chance to fire together and hence wire together.” This “rehearsal process” helps the brain perform better when the same or similar situations come up.

http://news.ubc.ca/2015/06/29/conversations-that-matter-better-brain-health/