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during sleep the brain cleans itself
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Panchito
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Date: October 17, 2013 10:26PM [www.sciencemag.org]
Most physiologists agree that sleep has come to serve many different purposes, ranging from memory consolidation to the regulation of metabolism and the immune system. While the "core" purposes of biological functions such as breathing and eating are easy to understand, however, scientists have never agreed on any such original purpose for sleeping. The new study, by Maiken Nedergaard and colleagues at the University of Rochester in New York, provides what Charles Czeisler, a sleep researcher at Harvard Medical School in Boston, calls the “first direct experimental evidence at the molecular level” for what could be sleep’s basic purpose: It clears the brain of toxic metabolic byproducts. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/17/2013 10:27PM by Panchito. Re: during sleep the brain cleans itself
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KidRaw
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Date: October 27, 2013 01:27AM This belongs in the Other Health Related Forum. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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