In a new commentary published in Annals of Internal Medicine, Robert B. Shpiner, MD, a clinical professor of pulmonary and critical care at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, argues that the growing use of artificial intelligence chatbots for health information reflects both health system strain and a broader shift in how patients seek information.

Researchers at Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins Medicine have discovered that memory consolidation during sleep depends on coordinated activity among three brain regions and disruptions to this activity can impair memory performance. This is the first human study to directly link interactions between the orbitofrontal cortex, thalamus and hippocampus to memory, offering new insight into how the brain strengthens memories and how epilepsy can impact the sleep-memory system.