Amazing Effects of Sleep (And Lack of it)

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Tamminen, J., Payne, J. D., Stickgold, R., Wamsley, E. J., & Gaskell, M. G. (2010). Sleep spindle activity is associated with the integration of new memories and existing knowledge. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30(43), 14356-14360. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989532/

Wamsley, E. J., Tucker, M., Payne, J. D., Benavides, J. A., & Stickgold, R. (2010). Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation. Current Biology, 20(9), 850-855.
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This is a really good article from The Atlantic too http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/04/for-better-performance-athletes-need-sleep/361042/

This page is good too http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/science/what/sleep-patterns-rem-nrem

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