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. 2008 Feb;11(2):123-4.
doi: 10.1038/nn0208-123.

Sleep: hitting the reset button

Leslie C Griffith, Michael Rosbash
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Sleep: hitting the reset button

Leslie C Griffith et al. Nat Neurosci. 2008 Feb.

Abstract

Many aspects of sleep, including the how and why, are still mysterious, especially its relationship to learning and memory. A new study suggests that sleep may serve to reset synaptic potentiation, linking it to homeostatic plasticity.

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The sleep state may provide an opportunity to reset synapses in the brain, depotentiating them back to baseline Awake episode is possible.
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