{"id":4740,"date":"2013-02-15T16:49:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T00:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:13:00","slug":"to-remember-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2013\/02\/to-remember-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"To remember, sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long afternoon or night of studying organic chemistry do you sometimes wake up the next day with little or no recall of what reagent does what? If that happens a lot, it may be that your sleep pattern is to blame.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have learned that several types of memory require sleep for consolidation. That is, to move a memory from the short-term neural pathways that are getting rewritten every few seconds to the long-term networks that last for days and weeks one needs adequate sleep (and several types of sleep). 5 or 6 hours just doesn&#8217;t cut it. Even 7 hours night after night can get in the way of learning.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about how sleep controls your ability to remember and perform at your best, listen to this <strong>Science Friday<\/strong> episode: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/segment\/02\/08\/2013\/science-of-slumber-how-sleep-affects-your-memory.html\" title=\"Science Friday\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Science of Sleep: How Sleep Affects Your Memory (Feb 8, 2013)<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the next time you look at your parents (or they look at you) and think, &#8220;how could you forget?&#8221;, it might just be insufficient sleep that is to blame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long afternoon or night of studying organic chemistry do you sometimes wake up the next day with little or no recall of what reagent does what? If that happens a lot, it may be that your sleep pattern is to blame. Scientists have learned that several types of memory require sleep for consolidation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-habits-distractions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5088,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/5088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}