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Quantitative Model Suggests Why We Need Sleep, and What Happens During Sleep

Quantitative Model Suggests Why We Need Sleep, and What Happens During Sleep | Soup for thought | Scoop.it
Study finds that in very early life, sleep helps to build the brain's infrastructure, but then takes on an entirely new, decluttering and repair role.
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All animals naturally experience a certain amount of neurological damage during waking hours, and the resulting debris, including damaged genes and proteins within neurons, can build up and cause brain disease.

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