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Biomedicine
Brains Learn Better at Night
August 27th, 2007
If you think that the idea of a morning person or an evening person is nonsense, then postgraduate student Martin Sale and his colleagues from the University of Adelaide have news for you. They have found that the time of day influences your brain’s ability to learn—and the human brain learns more effectively in the evening. And by identifying at what point in the day the brain is best able to operate, rehabilitation therapy can be targeted to that time, when recovery is maximised. “Our research has several future applications,” Mr Sale says. “If the brains of stroke patients can be artificially stimulated to improve learning,...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2007-08-27)
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