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Jon Hamilton

BIZARRE: Electrical pulses that synchronize the sleeping brain appear to boost memory - You Need To See This

A new study finds that stimulating the brain during sleep can improve memory. (DrAfter123/Getty Images)

A little brain stimulation at night appears to help people remember what they learned the previous day.

A study of 18 people with severe epilepsy found that they scored higher on a memory test if they got deep brain stimulation while they slept, a team reports in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

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