Sleep deprivation can have adverse cognitive effects, with one of the major consequences on the brain being memory deficits in learning models that are dependent on the hippocampus. A molecular mechanism by which brief sleep deprivation alters hippocampal function is now identified in mice; it involves the impairment of cyclic-AMP- and protein-kinase-A-dependent forms of synaptic plasticity.
- Christopher G. Vecsey
- George S. Baillie
- Ted Abel
