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Nature Neuroscience 11, 123 - 124 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn0208-123
Sleep: hitting the reset button
Leslie C Griffith1 & Michael Rosbash1
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The authors are at the Department of Biology, MS008, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA.
e-mail: griffith@brandeis.edu or e-mail: rosbash@brandeis.edu
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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