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AFAR Grantee in the News: New research co-authored by Omer Sharon, PhD, on sleep loss, tau buildup and aging related memory loss published in Nature Neuroscience.

AFAR Grantee in the News: New research co-authored by Omer Sharon, PhD, on sleep loss, tau buildup and aging related memory loss published in Nature Neuroscience.

On September 11th, 2026, Nature Neuroscience published new research by AFR Grantee Omer Sharon, PhD, exploring the connection between deep sleep loss, buildup of the protein tau, and aging-related memory loss.

Dr. Sharon explained the findings further in a related UC Berkeley News article: “This is the first time we’ve shown this relationship between tau and how it messes with memory consolidation by attenuating traveling slow waves that originate in the frontal cortex.”

This research was supported in part by Dr. Sharon’s 2024 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research and 2025 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Continuation Awards.

Read more in a related UC Berkeley News article here.

Read “Human tau pathology is associated with lonely, nontraveling slow waves linked to memory impairment” here.

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