In 1959, New York DJ Peter Tripp became a test subject for sleep’s effects. His 201-hour wakeathon made him see spiders in his shoes and question his identity. This shows why sleep is essential, not ...

One of sleep’s key functions is to stabilize and integrate new memories into our brain’s long-term memory systems, a process known as "consolidation." This idea is now widely accepted, though it ...

Declarative memory encoding, consolidation, and retrieval require the integration of elements encoded in widespread cortical locations. The mechanism whereby such “binding” of different components of ...