Having A Nap Can Improve Memory – Good To Remember But Not To Forget

Study subjects who took a short nap retained 85% of cards memorised pre-nap compared with 60% of those who stayed awake. However sometimes we want to help the brain forget – animal experiments show sleep deprivation after a trauma might is more effective in producing less adverse of the affects of the kind of stress behaviours seen in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).