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More on memory consolidation from neurosci and neurology:

- "New study shows highly creative people’s brains work differently from others'" (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41921738 ; and does this correlate for example like REM/non-REM and ADHD? How much does this topology vary amongst the population?

- "Discovery of Memory "Glue" Explains Lifelong Recall: KIBRA Protein, PKMzeta" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41921738

- "Brain found to store three copies of every memory" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41352124 but actually more than three: {in the hippocampus {EBN, LBN,}, prefrontal cortex, and engrams} but functional activations drift even just days apart given representational drift.

- "Memories stick around even after half the synapses are gone" (2026) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49404593