February 04, 2009
NeuroPod on pheromones, neural nets, fMRI and sleep:
The latest Nature Neuropod neuroscience podcast has just hit the net, with a great selection of discussions and interviews covering everything from pheromones and sexual attraction to the impact of poor quality sleep on memory.
This final section on an intriguing and recently published study found that even mild disturbance that didn't wake the sleeper but knocked them out of deeper sleeper into the shallower sleep stages could still disrupt the retention of material learned the previous day.
However, as I am remarkably tired myself I need as much deep sleep as I can get, so I shall leave the rest of the podcast as a voyage of discovery. Enjoy!
Link to Neuropod home page with audio.
mp3 of latest podcast.
