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Science 12 November 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5699, p. 1126
DOI: 10.1126/science.306.5699.1126a
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SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE MEETING:
Brain Cells May Pay the Price for a Bad Night's Sleep

Greg Miller

SAN DIEGO--From 23 to 27 October, this California coastal city hosted more than 30,000 researchers at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting. According to research on rodents described at the meeting, sleep apnea, a condition in which breathing irregularities occur during sleep, may kill neurons in brain regions crucial for learning and memory.

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