: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , January 10, 2025 Breathing during sleep orchestrates hippocampal nested sleep oscillations underlying memory consolidation A fascinating correlation is found by Sheriff et al Their : abstract Nested sleep oscillations , emerging from asynchronous states in coordinated bursts , are critical for memory consolidation . Whether these bursts emerge intrinsically or from an underlying rhythm is unknown . Here , we show a previously undescribed respiratory-driven oscillation in the human hippocampus that couples with cardinal sleep oscillations . Further , breathing promotes nesting of ripples in