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Matthew P Walker

- Verified email at berkeley.edu - Cited by 39837

Matthew Walker

- Verified email at ucl.ac.uk - Cited by 21860

Sleep, memory, and plasticity

MP Walker, R Stickgold - Annu. Rev. Psychol., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Although the functions of sleep remain largely unknown, one of the most exciting
hypotheses is that sleep contributes importantly to processes of memory and brain plasticity …

[HTML][HTML] Sleep-dependent learning and memory consolidation

MP Walker, R Stickgold - Neuron, 2004 - cell.com
While the functions of sleep remain largely unknown, one of the most exciting and
contentious hypotheses is that sleep contributes importantly to memory. A large number of …

Overnight therapy? The role of sleep in emotional brain processing.

MP Walker, E van Der Helm - Psychological bulletin, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Cognitive neuroscience continues to build meaningful connections between affective
behavior and human brain function. Within the biological sciences, a similar renaissance …

[HTML][HTML] Practice with sleep makes perfect: sleep-dependent motor skill learning

MP Walker, T Brakefield, A Morgan, JA Hobson… - Neuron, 2002 - cell.com
Improvement in motor skill performance is known to continue for at least 24 hr following
training, yet the relative contributions of time spent awake and asleep are unknown. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] The human emotional brain without sleep—a prefrontal amygdala disconnect

SS Yoo, N Gujar, P Hu, FA Jolesz, MP Walker - Current biology, 2007 - cell.com
Sleep deprivation is known to impair a range of functions, including immune regulation and
metabolic control, as well as neurocognitive processes, such as learning and memory [1] …

Dissociable stages of human memory consolidation and reconsolidation

MP Walker, T Brakefield, J Allan Hobson, R Stickgold - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Historically, the term 'memory consolidation'refers to a process whereby a memory becomes
increasingly resistant to interference from competing or disrupting factors with the continued …

The role of sleep in cognition and emotion

MP Walker - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
As critical as waking brain function is to cognition, an extensive literature now indicates that
sleep supports equally important, different yet complementary operations. This review will …

Four centuries of geomagnetic secular variation from historical records

A Jackson, ART Jonkers… - … Transactions of the …, 2000 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We present a new model of the magnetic field at the core–mantle boundary for the interval
1590–1990. The model, called gufm1, is based on a massive new compilation of historical …

Adult epilepsy

JS Duncan, JW Sander, SM Sisodiya, MC Walker - The Lancet, 2006 - thelancet.com
The epilepsies are one of the most common serious brain disorders, can occur at all ages,
and have many possible presentations and causes. Although incidence in childhood has …

Comparison of the effector functions of human immunoglobulins using a matched set of chimeric antibodies.

M Brüggemann, GT Williams, CI Bindon… - The Journal of …, 1987 - rupress.org
Cell lines have been established that secrete a matched set of human chimeric IgM, IgG1,
IgG2, IgG3, IgG4, IgE, and IgA2 antibodies that are directed against the hapten 4-hydroxy-3 …