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Abstract
It is possible that one of the essential functions of sleep is to take out the garbage, as it were, erasing and "forgetting" information built up throughout the day that would clutter the synaptic network that defines us. It may also be that this cleanup function of sleep is a general principle of neuroscience, applicable to every creature with a nervous system.Keywords: REM sleep; TR sleep; depotentiation; development; mental health; noradrenaline; spindles; theta
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28100731 PMCID: PMC5242402 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0820-16.2017
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neurosci ISSN: 0270-6474 Impact factor: 6.167