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Letter: Mysteries of the sleep of ages

Published 17 August 2016

From Bruce Denness

Wilson notes that one of the reasons we sleep is to help us consolidate new memories. Older people get far less sleep than the young (28 May, p 32). I wonder whether this partly accounts for short-term memory loss?

Whitwell, Isle of Wight, UK

Issue no. 3087 published 20 August 2016

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