The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Can we essentially, you know, amplify the amount of deep sleep? And in doing so, can we salvage aspects of learning and memory? But better still, could we actually start to increase, you know, the amount of glymphatic clearance of beta amyloid?
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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And that's why we've started to try and develop things like electrical brain stimulation methods, to try and help actually augment human sleep, an electrically-supercharged sleep, as it were, to see if we could give back some healthy quality of deep sleep to patients who are aging or those with dementia.