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Sleep Is for Forgetting

Journal

JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 37, Issue 3, Pages 464-473

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SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0820-16.2017

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depotentiation; development; mental health; noradrenaline; REM sleep; spindles; theta; TR sleep

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  1. National Institutes of Health [MH60670]
  2. Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience
  3. Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan

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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.

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