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How the sleeping brain simulates the world during REM sleep

In his wildest dreams, HHMI Investigator Massimo Scanziani never imagined he'd study sleep. But, when a postdoc in the lab suggested studying eye movements in sleeping animals, Scanziani's curiosity was awakened.

May 26, 2026

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Scientists discover brain region linking short-term to long-term memory

We have a pretty good idea of where memory starts and ends—short-term memories form in the hippocampus and, if the situation calls for it, stabilize into long-term memories in the cortex. But what happens along the winding ...

Mar 30, 2023

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