The Sleep-Spindle Spinner

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
1 min readMar 15, 2013

“We found that a very common sleep drug can be used to increase verbal memory. … This is the first study to show you can manipulate sleep to improve memory. It suggests sleep drugs could be a powerful tool to tailor sleep to particular memory disorders.”
Hm. Ambien may help improve memory, per a study appearing in the Journal of Neuroscience. HM.

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com