Timeline for Is sleep "defragmentation" for your brain?
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| Mar 16, 2019 at 13:48 | vote | accept | T. Sar | ||
| Mar 13, 2019 at 16:00 | comment | added | Bryan Krause | @T.Sar The chemical cleanup hypothesis of sleep is possibly quite different from the process you described in your OP as "prunes synapses/memories and reconsolidate memories" - I would say in the field right now they are essentially opposite hypotheses of the purpose of sleep. That said, I don't think they are actually mutually exclusive but it would be a mistake to consider them synonymous. | |
| Mar 13, 2019 at 14:24 | comment | added | T. Sar | Thank you for your answer. I find the first article (the one about chemical cleanup) specially interesting. This is exactly what I was looking for. | |
| Mar 13, 2019 at 14:20 | history | answered | DevSolar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |