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Prepare for a journey into the darker corners of the Wizarding World! Hosts Ev, Irvin, and Sophia are joined by special guests Dr. Louise Freeman and Nick Jeffrey to tackle one of the most talked-about topics in the Wizarding World: suspicious death in the Harry Potter series. Join us for a deep dive into the impact of the series' most discussed deaths, including the mysterious veil that claimed Sirius Black and the ongoing debate surrounding Albus Dumbledore's pivotal death before Deathly Hallows. Join the discussion:  https://threebroomstickspod.com/episode-64-deaths-dead-as-a-dumbledoornail/  In this episode:   Killed by a metaphor - a horrible way to go! Why are Snape's spells so very blast-y? Who's chugging draughts of living death! Snape's knitting gives it all away Jo is trying to get us through the stages of grief Dying takes a lot out of you! Jo put a fan debate into Deathly Hallows Resources: Dumbledore is not dead by Dave Haber “Potterversity” Episode 55: “The Murky Marshes of Memory – Part 1” by Louise Freeman “Potterversity” Episode 56: “The Murky Marshes of Memory – Part 2” by Louise Freeman For more from our guests: Louise Freeman: @lmf3b on Twitter The Farting Sofa Faculty Lounge The Harry Potter Academic Conference Queen City Magic Nick Jeffrey: @gbjeffen on Twitter Nick Jeffrey on Hogwarts Professor Nick Jeffrey on Substack Contact: Website: https://threebroomstickspod.com/ Email: 3broomstickspod@gmail.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/3broomsticks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/threebroomstickspod/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/threebroomstickspodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/threebroompod YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@ThreeBroomsticksPodcast

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In this episode, I cover the second half of Wendy Chun's "Software and Memory." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief and Works Agency: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-donation Middle East Children's Alliance: https://secure.everyaction.com/1_w5egiGB0u0BAfbJMsEfw2 Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy

Remembering names! Preventing dementia! Photographic memories! Weed! Goldfish! It's the thrilling conclusion of Mnemonology with Dr. Michael Yassa, the Director of UC Irvine's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. We talk long vs. short term memories, how smells can pack a wallop of emotions, prosopagnosia (“facial blindness”), the fog of new parenthood, Alzheimer's and other causes of dementia, and tips to keep your brain in tip-top shape. Let's make some mems. Listen to Part 1 hereFollow Dr. Yassa on Google Scholar and XVisit the Yassa Translational Neuroscience Laboratory at UCI websiteA donation went to UC Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory's graduate student and postdoctoral Junior Scholar FundMore episode sources and linksSmologies (short, classroom-safe) episodesOther episodes you may enjoy: Attention-Deficit Neuropsychology (ADHD), Molecular Neurobiology (BRAIN CHEMICALS), Eudemonology (HAPPINESS), Traumatology (PTSD), Sports & Performance Psychology (ANXIETY & CONFIDENCE), Phonology (LINGUISTICS), Neuropathology (CONCUSSIONS), Quantum Ontology (WHAT IS REAL?), Surgical Angiology (VEINS & ARTERIES), Disability Sociology (DISABILITY PRIDE MONTH), Dolorology (PAIN)Sponsors of OlogiesTranscripts and bleeped episodesBecome a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a monthOlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, hoodies, totes!Follow Ologies on Instagram and BlueskyFollow Alie Ward on Instagram and TikTokEditing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and Jake ChaffeeManaging Director: Susan HaleScheduling Producer: Noel DilworthTranscripts by Aveline Malek Website by Kelly R. DwyerTheme song by Nick Thorburn

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How are memories made? Where are they stored? Where do they go? What was I just talking about? Neurobiologist, professor, researcher, and Director of UC Irvine's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Dr. Michael Yassa, joins us for a two-parter deep diving into our memories. Get to know the cells that run your life while he also busts flim-flam, and talks about movie myths, aging and memory loss, childbirth amnesia, what happens when you cram for a test, hormones and memory, that thing where you can't remember a word, how to let go of the past, and more. Next week, we'll follow up with your Patreon questions about Alzeihmer's, remembering people's names, neurodivergence, dementia, collective misremembering, and so much more. Commit it to memory.  Follow Dr. Yassa on Google Scholar and XVisit the Yassa Translational Neuroscience Laboratory at UCI websiteA donation went to UC Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory's graduate student and postdoctoral fundMore episode sources and linksSmologies (short, classroom-safe) episodesOther episodes you may enjoy: Attention-Deficit Neuropsychology (ADHD), Molecular Neurobiology (BRAIN CHEMICALS), Eudemonology (HAPPINESS), Traumatology (PTSD), Sports & Performance Psychology (ANXIETY & CONFIDENCE), Phonology (LINGUISTICS), Neuropathology (CONCUSSIONS)Sponsors of OlogiesTranscripts and bleeped episodesBecome a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a monthOlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, hoodies, totes!Follow Ologies on Instagram and BlueskyFollow Alie Ward on Instagram and TikTokEditing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and Jake ChaffeeManaging Director: Susan HaleScheduling Producer: Noel DilworthTranscripts by Aveline Malek Website by Kelly R. DwyerTheme song by Nick Thorburn

In this episode, I cover the first half of Wendy Chun's "Software and Memory" Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief and Works Agency: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-donation Middle East Children's Alliance: https://secure.everyaction.com/1_w5egiGB0u0BAfbJMsEfw2 Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy

The journey to the past continues as we delve deeper into the magic of memory in Harry Potter. In the second part of our conversation with Louise Freeman, we continue discussing the ethics of Memory Charms and move on to the memories stored in wizarding portraits and Horcruxes. Magical portraits can carry some of the memories of their subjects, allowing viewers to converse with them after their deaths. New developments in artificial intelligence purport to offer something similar. How healthy is it to dwell on memories, for wizards or Muggles? Portraits, the Mirror of Erised, and the Resurrection Stone all offer glimpses of lost loved lones, which can be helpful to a certain extent but come with warnings about becoming too attached. While portraits can be a safe and healthy expression of the transhumanist impulse to live on through an object, the creation of Horcruxes is a dark, dangerous, evil expression of that desire. The Tom Riddle who emerges from the diary refers to himself as a memory, indicating a connection between memory and the soul. The Dementor's Kiss presumably removes memories along with the soul, as Dumbledore says that Barty Crouch, Jr.'s testimony is lost, implying that his memories could not simply be retrieved and placed in a Pensieve. Memory is such a key part of the series partly because there is such an emphasis on grief. Harry, who was too young when his parents died to remember them, gradually reconstructs memories of them through photographs, stories from those who knew them, the Mirror of Erised, the Pensieve, and the Resurrection Stone. The grieving process, and Harry's journey more broadly, necessitates exploring the past. Is it possible that even his conversation with Dumbledore in King's Cross is entirely constructed from memories?

Explore how memory operates in magical ways in Harry Potter that might be quite unlike the Muggle understanding of memory. Regular contributor Dr. Louise M. Freeman is professor emerita of psychology at Mary Baldwin University and a licensed behavior analyst and service provider for special needs individuals. She considers the implications of being able to store and share memories in a Pensieve. While the basic premise seems somewhat similar to the psychological process of encoding, storing, and retrieving memories, there is almost an element of time travel, in which the user can access details that the initial viewer surely would not have been able to see or remember. But can such details be trusted, or are they part of the viewer's subjective reconstruction and reinterpretation of the memory? While it is obvious that Slughorn has tampered with his memory of Tom Riddle, it is less clear how accurate Snape's memories of the Marauders are. Upon his death, Snape manages to show Harry a clear montage of memories explaining everything - had he been preparing all of the necessary information in order to hand it off so neatly? How difficult is it to show memories smoothly? Could Harry's memory of the Dementor attack in Little Whinging have been used as evidence in his hearing, or would Fudge not have allowed or trusted it, particularly if presented by Dumbledore? What happens when memories are lost to a Memory Charm? Are they fully removed, or just hidden? Victims of such charms seem to have varying degrees of success in recovering their memories. While taking memories can be portrayed as a terrible crime, like what Lockhart intended to do to Harry and Ron, modifying them is often depicted as humorous or necessary, such as when the Ministry of Magic performs Memory Charms on Muggles who have witnessed magic. Hermione alters her parents' memories without their consent, albeit for a noble purpose, but the full consequences are unknown. If they were to be captured and interrogated by Death Eaters, could their memories be forcibly extracted? There are ethical issues surrounding memory in both the wizarding and Muggle worlds. Stay tuned for Part 2 to hear more from Louise on the complicated nature of memory.

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A new MP3 sermon from Mid Valley Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Stirring Up Your Memory Part 2 Subtitle: Zealous For The Truth Speaker: Dennis S Bullock Broadcaster: Mid Valley Baptist Church Event: Sunday School Date: 8/4/2024 Bible: 2 Peter 1:8-14 Length: 36 min.

Last episode we talked about memory and focused on the things we want/need to remember. On this episode, let's explore the things that we might be better served to forget!

I've raced for a long time, so I tend to take for granted some of the simple stuff. This quote can be adapted to our racing “If there's a request that you keep forgetting, that's a sign that it isn't very important. The really important stuff doesn't go away.” - Jason Fried. 

Jesus was not just a Saviour—He was also a friend, a teacher, and mentor to His disciples. In this series, Lessons from Jesus, we will discover practical ways to apply God's principles to our everyday lives. Throughout the Scriptures, Jesus taught His disciples lessons that would later become truths illustrated in the New Testament. Today, we will get a glimpse into how Jesus used teaching moments to reveal principles about the Kingdom of God.

Jesus was not just a Saviour—He was also a friend, a teacher, and mentor to His disciples. In this series, Lessons from Jesus, we will discover practical ways to apply God's principles to our everyday lives. Throughout the Scriptures, Jesus taught His disciples lessons that would later become truths illustrated in the New Testament. Today, we will get a glimpse into how Jesus used teaching moments to reveal principles about the Kingdom of God.

Phil and Azaii continue the conversation about memory with phone numbers, camels, and an interesting patient case! Tune in for memory part 2 and send in your questions for the upcoming AMA! Send us your questions for our upcoming episode at podcast@jackwestin.com Leave a response in the Spotify Q&A or on Youtube. Join the Jack Westin family with complimentary academic advising. Our advisors can provide individual guidance on resources that will help you during your MCAT prep. Want to learn more? Shoot us a text at 415-855-4435 or email us at podcast@jackwestin.com!

Join Phil and Azaii as they discuss the information processing model. We discuss how we sometimes remember things that we weren't even paying attention to, and how you can remember a celebrity's phone number. Send us your questions for our upcoming episode at podcast@jackwestin.com Join the Jack Westin family with complimentary academic advising. Our advisors can provide guidance on resources that will help you individually during your MCAT prep. Want to learn more? Shoot us a text at 415-855-4435 or email us at podcast@jackwestin.com!

Muscle memory is so important is so many areas of life and especally in sports. Dancing. Bowling. Golf. Ping Pong. Tennis. Swimming. To become really good at the game you're trying to master, you often need to develop "muscle memory" so you can repeat the proper motion over and over again. The movement needs to become embedded in your body. It needs to become instinct and intuition. You need to be able to do what you need to do, over and over again, without even thinking about it, because if you have to think about it, you're already a step behind where you need to be. And in much the same way, if we're ever going to be the men of purity that God is calling us to be, we need to develop the "muscle memory" necessary for sexual purity. In this series Tony shares some important principles that will help you discover how to develop this "muscle memory". If you practice over and over again, just like your dance steps. and just like your golf swing, the "muscle memory" of your sexual purity will become embedded to the place where you no longer have to even think about it, because you're just doing it without even realizing you're doing it. Be encouraged. Don't dive up. Keep practicing, and you'll develop the "muscle memory" of purity!

Muscle memory is so important is so many areas of life and especally in sports. Dancing. Bowling. Golf. Ping Pong. Tennis. Swimming. To become really good at the game you're trying to master, you often need to develop "muscle memory" so you can repeat the proper motion over and over again. The movement needs to become embedded in your body. It needs to become instinct and intuition. You need to be able to do what you need to do, over and over again, without even thinking about it, because if you have to think about it, you're already a step behind where you need to be. And in much the same way, if we're ever going to be the men of purity that God is calling us to be, we need to develop the "muscle memory" necessary for sexual purity. In this series Tony shares some important principles that will help you discover how to develop this "muscle memory". If you practice over and over again, just like your dance steps. and just like your golf swing, the "muscle memory" of your sexual purity will become embedded to the place where you no longer have to even think about it, because you're just doing it without even realizing you're doing it. Be encouraged. Don't dive up. Keep practicing, and you'll develop the "muscle memory" of purity!

Today on Bold Steps with Pastor Mark Jobe ... lean into the next season of your journey. Here at Bold Steps we believe that God wants to take you to a new level. He wants to do something new in your life. Just like how God prepared the Israelites in their time in the desert, He wants to prepare you as well for your next season with Him. To do that, we need to be remember-ers. We'll see in Deuteronomy 8 that God tells the Israelites to not forget what He did for them. Some who hear this message will need to shake the box and get your praise on, remembering God’s hand of faithfulness.Support the show: https://www.moodyradio.org/programs/bold-steps-with-dr-mark-jobe/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on Bold Steps, Pastor Mark Jobe shows us that the key to your future lies in your past. Can you think back to a time where God provided a way out for you? Maybe saved you from something? Brought you through a painful situation? Maybe you’ve forgotten? We’re going to look at a powerful passage from Deuteronomy 8 today where God says, “Be careful not to forget what the Lord has done for you.” In order to be ready for what God has for us in our next season, we need to have a clear picture of what He’s done already in the past.Support the show: https://www.moodyradio.org/programs/bold-steps-with-dr-mark-jobe/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Victor recognizes familiar faces from the Colony and Saul is given some startling new information about Lizzy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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After several months of living at Dunbar, things seem to have settled down, until a helicopter is spotted dropping off a team nearby. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Do you often wonder how memories are stored in our brains? Do you sometimes find yourself feeling forgetful? Would you like to improve your memory? Lisa continues the conversation today with authors and brain experts Drs. Andrew E. Budson and Elizabeth A. Kensinger. Together they share their years of clinical expertise and research to explain why we forget and offer tips for how we can begin to improve our memory.      Andrew E. Budson, MD received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School after majoring in chemistry and philosophy at Haverford College. Dr. Budson is Professor of Neurology at Boston University, Lecturer in Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System. His career combines education, research, and clinical care to help those with memory disorders.      Elizabeth A. Kensinger, PhD majored in psychology and biology at Harvard University and received her PhD in neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital, she joined the faculty of Boston College, where she is now a Full Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. She directs a research laboratory that investigates many aspects of human memory, including how memory shifts as adults age and how emotion, stress, and sleep affect memory.      They will also offer ways to keep our brains as strong as we can, especially as we age, including the F.O.U.R. method. This includes Focused attention; Organizing the material we wish to remember; Understanding the material; Relating the memory to other things.  This method involves effort, but quickly works to have faster, clear memory retrieval. Their latest book is “Why We Forget and How to Remember Better: The Science Behind Memory.” This is Part 2 of the interview.  Info: AndrewBudsonMD.com   and https://www.bccanlab.com.  

Would you like to improve your memory? Would you like to learn more about why we forget? Have you ever been 100% sure about a fact or an occurrence, only to find out that you are not remembering it correctly? Why would that happen? Our guests today, authors and brain experts Drs. Andrew E. Budson and Elizabeth A. Kensinger share their years of clinical expertise and research to explain why this happens and how we can begin to improve our memory.   Andrew E. Budson, MD received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School after majoring in chemistry and philosophy at Haverford College. Dr. Budson is Professor of Neurology at Boston University, Lecturer in Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Cognitive & Behavioral Neurology at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System. His career combines education, research, and clinical care to help those with memory disorders.   Elizabeth A. Kensinger, PhD majored in psychology and biology at Harvard University and received her PhD in neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital, she joined the faculty of Boston College, where she is now a Full Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. She directs a research laboratory that investigates many aspects of human memory, including how memory shifts as adults age and how emotion, stress, and sleep affect memory.   They will also discuss Alzheimer's disease and dementia and offer ways to keep our brains as strong as we can, especially as we age. Their latest book is “Why We Forget and How to Remember Better: The Science Behind Memory.” This is Part 1 of the interview.  Info: AndrewBudsonMD.com   and https://www.bccanlab.com

In this 6-part series examining Jesus' letter to the church in Ephesus, Dr. Michael Youssef shares how to know Jesus more fully and love Him more deeply today than yesterday. Learn what it truly means to love Jesus with all of your mind, heart, soul, and memory—growing in your love for Christ each day.

Shocking new findings uncover lost archaeology in Asia that will blow your mind. Ever heard about the mysterious tomb surrounded by a terracotta army, or the ancient relics around it? What about a miraculous, impossible sword that may have memory? Dive into the legends of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, his encounter with aliens, and so much more with remote viewer John Vivanco and investigative researcher Rob Counts. Support Metaphysical and watch the full episode on Rise TV Watch Metaphysical on YouTube Follow Metaphysical on Instagram Follow Metaphysical on Tik Tok

This is counter-intuitive, but it may be more dangerous to your spiritual health on the day you land a new job, than on the day you were fired from the old one.

Doubt is not the absence of faith. It is the questioning of faith. You can only doubt what you already believe.

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The final installment of this series focuses on what happens inside your brain during deep, non-REM sleep that allows you to fixate new memories. There are at least two mechanisms at work here. One is a process of shifting information from short to long-term memory. Each night when you go into deep non REM sleep, those long range brainwaves of deep sleep are going to be moving packets of information, from that short term, vulnerable, USB stick-like memory reservoir (the hippocampus) to the safer long term storage site (the cortex). When we wake up each morning, we've now cleared out that USB memory stick, and we've refreshed and restored our ability to start learning new memories. This process repeats, filling up the USB stick with new information during the day, and then at night, transferring those memories over to the long term storage site in the cortex.The second memory mechanism, memory replay, is very different. Back in the 1990s, scientists recording the activity of individual brain cells in the memory centers of rats running around a maze discovered that different brain cells coded different parts of the maze. More remarkable was the discovery that the sleeping brain would replay these new memory sequences during deep, non-REM sleep much faster than standard waking speeds. This meant the memory trace was being replayed many times, and the brain was repeatedly etching it more permanently into the brain.There is at least one other time during sleep when we see memory replay—REM sleep, the stage when we dream. But here, memories are replayed at much slower speeds, sometimes just half the speed of waking experience. Because of this temporal distortion - where time within the dream is slowed down and expanded - you will feel as though you have been dreaming for far longer than you actually have. The movie Inception, in fact, draws some inspiration from this concept - almost as though the director and the writer of the movie Chris Nolan had a little bit of idea help from a sleep scientist!Please note that Matt is not a medical doctor, and none of the content in this podcast should be considered medical advice in any way, shape, or form, nor prescriptive in any way.Today's podcast is supported by biochemical electrolyte drink company LMNT, and they are very kindly offering eight free sample packs when you purchase any one of their orders at drinklmnt.com/mattwalker. LMNT is an electrolyte sports drink that I can get behind - it's created from the basis of science, and it has no sugar, no coloring, and no artificial ingredients – all qualities that are so important to maintaining your blood biochemical balance. If you want to give LMNT a try, just head on over to drinklmnt.com/mattwalker and get your eight free samples with your first purchase. Another sponsor today is MasterClass - the online streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world's best about a variety of topics such as cooking, art, science, and, of course, technology. When you sign up, you get access to all of the classes taught by such masters as Martin Scorsese, Venus Williams, and Neil deGrasse Tyson, to name a few of Matt's favorites. You may even find a masterclass from a familiar sleep scientist! This year, Masterclass is offering a special gift for the holidays - buy one annual Masterclass membership and get another one totally free! So if you're curious and have a thirst for learning, head on over to masterclass.com/mattwalker  now.And, as always, if you have thoughts or feedback you'd like to share, please reach out to Matt on Instagram.

Previously, we learned sleep is necessary before learning to prepare the brain to learn effectively. But sleep is also needed after learning to cement new information in your brain. This discovery happened in 1924 when two German researchers pitted sleep and wake against each other to see which would win out in memory-savings benefit. Their findings suggested that time spent awake can be hazardous to new memories while time spent asleep has fixating benefits.Researchers have also put REM sleep head-to-head with non-REM to see which is more effective at saving memories. When it comes to memory, it is deep non-REM that helps hit the save button on new memories. These results led Matt to conduct experiments where we causally enhance the memory using electrical or auditory brain stimulation methods, and as a result, boosting the next day retention of memories. Indeed, with some of these sleep-stimulating methods, researchers have been able to double the amount of memory-savings benefit from sleep.The results of these studies have real pragmatic and clinical implications, including in the context of aging and dementia. It's no secret our learning and memory abilities begin to decline as we get older, but it's also been discovered that a physiological signature of aging is that your sleep gets worse, especially the amount of deep, non-REM sleep. Recent evidence indicates that these two processes aren't simply co-occurring but significantly interrelated. The potential silver lining of this is that sleep is something we may be able to do something about. Matt and other researchers are exploring the use of direct current brain stimulation to restore some healthy quality of deep sleep in older adults and those with dementia, thereby salvaging aspects of the learning and memory function. And the tentative answer so far is that this could work, although it will take some years before we can even start to entertain real hope in this regard.Please note that Matt is not a medical doctor, and none of the content in this podcast should be considered medical advice in any way, shape, or form, nor prescriptive in any way.Those fine people at Athletic Greens are one of the sponsors of this week's episode. and they are generously offering three benefits for anyone who uses the above link for their first order: 1) a discount on your order; 2) a one-year free supply of vitamin D; 3) five free travel packs. Athletic Greens is a nutrition drink that combines a full complement of antioxidants, minerals and biotics, together with essential vitamins. Matt's been using it for several years now because he's serious about his health and because he did his research on the science and ingredients in Athletic Greens and thinks its science and scientific data that can be taken as ground truth.Another sponsor this week is the good people at InsideTracker, and they are generously offering a special 25% off any one of their programs for anyone who uses the above link.  InsideTracker is a personalized biometric platform that analyzes your blood and your DNA to better understand what's happening inside of you and also offers suggestions regarding things that you can do to better try and adjust some of those numbers, optimize them, and, as a result, optimize you.So, make your way over to Athletic Greens and InsideTracker to take advantage of these incredible deals. And, as always, if you have thoughts or feedback you'd like to share, please reach out to Matt on Instagram.

It is a fundamental truth that sleep is far more than the absence of wakefulness. It is an incredibly active state, demonstrated by the fact that numerous functions of the brain and body are restored by and depend on sufficient sleep. One of the most impressive and best-understood of these is sleep's beneficial role in boosting learning and memory abilities. Sleep is necessary both before and after learning and it intelligently associates and interconnects new memories together, offering the ability for creativity and ingenuity.The first of these benefits starts while we're awake, as the brain acquires novel information, and different types of memories are imprinted in different parts of it. Fact-based memories depend on an area of the brain called the hippocampus, which is almost like a USB stick. Some years ago, Matt and his team conducted a study on the hippocampus and found a 40% deficit in the ability of the brain to make new memories without sleep. In addition, scientists working with rats have found that depriving the brain of sleep stops the cells within the hippocampus' memory structure from forming strong connections. Notably, it doesn't take an entire night of sleep deprivation to produce these types of impediments—selective deprivation of deep, non-REM sleep in humans can produce the same effects.Research has shown that during the deepest stage of deep, non-REM sleep, powerful brainwaves combine to act like a transfer mechanism. Wanting to know even more about how learning capacity and ability change across a waking day and how sleep modifies or restores that, Matt and his team designed a new study on daytime naps. They found that staying awake throughout the day resulted in a progressive decline in learning capacity, while those who took a ninety-minute nap showed no such decline. In fact, their capacity to memorize facts increased after that nap, showing a 20% learning advantage. This illustrates further that, without sufficient sleep, the brain is like a waterlogged sponge, our memory circuits saturated with memories so that we can no longer absorb new information and make new memories effectively.Please note that Matt is not a medical doctor, and none of the content in this podcast should be considered medical advice in any way, shape, or form, nor prescriptive in any way.Today's podcast is supported by MasterClass - the online streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world's best about a variety of topics such as cooking, business, art, entertainment, writing, sports, science, health, and, of course, technology. When you sign up, you get access to all of the classes taught by such masters as Martin Scorsese, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ron Howard, and Bill Clinton to name just a few of Matt's favorites. You may even find a masterclass from a familiar sleep scientist! And for this Holiday season, if you give one annual membership you'll get a second one, free! Another sponsor of today's podcast is the biochemical electrolyte drink company LMNT, and they are very kindly offering eight free sample packs when you purchase any one of their orders at drinklmnt.com/mattwalker. LMNT is an electrolyte sports drink that I can fully get behind - it's created from the basis of science, and it has no sugar, no coloring, and no artificial ingredients – all qualities that are so important to maintaining your blood biochemical balance.So, make your way over to LMNT and MasterClass to take advantage of these incredible deals. And, as always, if you have thoughts or feedback you'd like to share, please reach out to Matt on Instagram.