Browsing Psychology, Department of by Author "Dringenberg, Hans"

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Effects of Reticular Activation on Long-Term Depression in Primary Visual Cortex of the Long-Evans Rat

Stewart, Matthew

Long-term depression (LTD) is a widely studied form of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity, typically induced by prolonged low-frequency stimulation (LFS). LFS is highly eﬀective in eliciting LTD in vitro, but several ...
The Effects of Self-Guided Meditation and Napping on Memory Consolidation in Humans

Dastgheib, Mohammad

Numerous studies have reported that, compared to an equivalent period of wakefulness, post-training sleep (overnight or daytime naps) benefits memory consolidation (Diekelmann & Born, 2010; Mednick, Nakayama, & Stickgold, ...
The Role of Napping in the Consolidation of Clinically-Relevant Information in Non-Depressed and Depressed Participants

Lo, Edwyn

The hypothesis that sleep may have beneficial effects on memory consolidation has been widely reported for many years (Jenkins & Dallenbach, 1924; Van Ormer, 1933; Fowler, Sullivan, & Ekstrand, 1973). Since then, these ...