The Holidays will mean a lot of feasting and late night outs and with that thought alone, you will agree that drunk or even simply drowsy drivers are sure to plague the streets. And to help avoid such unfortunate incidents, perhaps this new system will minimize or better yet negate such accidents for the season of cheers.

The system is the Active Driver Monitoring System, something that should keep drivers alert by monitoring their eye and head movements as well as the driver’s hear rate. This breakthrough will certainly be a big help, especially for the people who may drink too much and at the wee hours too.

But even without the device, just make sure you get enough sleep and drink conservatively. Christmas is a season of celebrating and not for sulking.

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They came up with a straightforward test to do the trick. They would teach a motor task to sleepwalkers and people with sleep behavior disorders, who typically move their bodies in tandem with dreams. If test subjects repeated the motions while sleeping, it would clearly demonstrate replay.

Participants were trained to hit an array of color-coded buttons in response to computer prompts, then taped while asleep. Taken in aggregate, their sleeping movements tended to resemble those in the test. One woman in particular performed the test choreography with uncanny precision.

If you don’t believe me, check out the video for yourself to put everything to rest.

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Silentnight reveals yet another potential breakthrough to get some sensible sleep with their new Pocket Zing mattresses. They are filled with pro-biotic microcapsules to help provide better wakefulness in the mornings.

As you sleep, your body pressure activates the friendly bacteria, which quickly multiply to outnumber and replace any harmful bacteria in the bed. The friendly bacteria reduce mould and moisture, keeping dust-mites at bay and reducing allergens for a drier, fresher, healthier bed.

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Though we haven’t seen any concrete proof on how we can benefit from proper sleep as far as our memory is concerned, it seems that this logic is going to be backed up soon with this new discovery by Rutgers University, Newark and Collége de France, Paris research team. It seems that they have scored a major breakthrough discovering a mechanism that is responsible for associating sleep with memory formation.

Normally, we address it to the time of sleep. Other than that, no clear evidence exists. But now it looks like the said research teams outdid themselves. They have determined that short transient brain events, called “sharp wave ripples,” are responsible for consolidating memory and transferring the learned information from the hippocampus to the neocortex, where long-term memories are stored.

With this development, a lot of unanswered questions now become clearer. Rest and good sleep is one thing. But the memory formation to benefit from it seems to be more important as far as tying up the learning factor is concerned.

(Source) Science Daily

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