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Natural sleep, but not propofol-induced anesthesia preserves spatial and procedural memory consolidation
Eva‐Maria Kurz, Annika Hanert, Axel Fudickar…·Thorsten Bartsch
This study compares memory consolidation during natural sleep and propofol-induced anesthesia, finding that sleep preserves memory while anesthesia impairs it, likely due to disrupted spindle coupling during slow oscillations.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.05.749587