One important form of memory, episodic memory, is the recollection of these kinds of moments in life. Episodic memories are an important part of how we create long-term memories. They could be of something that happened long ago, such as your first day of elementary school, or as recent and everyday as the parking spot you maneuvered into before going into the grocery store.<\/p>\n
As we age, our episodic memory gets weaker. Sensory details of life\u2019s moments become harder to recall, though scientists don\u2019t yet know why. This is true for almost all of us, but for some people, including those who are developing Alzheimer\u2019s disease, the scale of memory loss can be devastating.<\/p>\n
New research by UC Berkeley neuroscientist Omer Sharon and colleagues, directed by former Berkeley sleep researcher Matthew Walker, may help explain why. The researchers identified a link between changes in brain wave patterns during non-REM sleep, poorer episodic memory formation and buildup of the protein tau, a known marker for development of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, in the brain\u2019s frontal cortex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One important form of memory, episodic memory, is the recollection of these kinds of moments in life. Episodic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-464803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}