In a commentary accompanying the paper, two other psychologists, Gordon Feld and Jan Born, write: "The findings highlight the breadth of possible applications to permanently modify any unwanted behaviour by targeted memory reactivation during sleep".
You could screen blood from patients and organ donors in this very broad manner and predict potential future issues with viral reactivation".
Ken Paller, the paper's senior author and a professor of psychology at Northwestern, said: "We call this Targeted Memory Reactivation, because the sounds played during sleep could produce relatively better memory for information cued during sleep compared to information not cued during sleep.
They also appeal for patience: they say the recent "reactivation" measures need time to take effect.But the protesters are in no mood to wait.
Dr Ostrander's work showed that in dogs it is caused by the reactivation of a "dead" version of a gene involved in the regulation of growth.
And Dr Schaffer and Dr Arkin suspect that complete reactivation may not be necessary.
It seems this reactivation also allows the mitochondria to stimulate apoptosis.At least, that is what Dr Michelakis thinks is going on.
If such silencing and reactivation takes place in naturally occurring genes, it could account for a lot of the variation between individuals and between generations.Epigenesis may even account for differences between species.
Thus, it is one of many sacrificial rites that have as their intention the seasonal renewal and reactivation of the fertility of the earth.
A reflection of the conservative nature of the ruling government was the reactivation of the old Communist Party of Belarus early in 1993, now one of two Communist parties in the republic.
It could be called a "hallucination" of familiarity; some theorists interpret the experience as being based on reactivation of old memory traces by stimuli resembling those experienced in the past in the way that a pressed rose discovered in a long-forgotten dance program, for example, may trigger a flood of old memories (see also memory).
