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Article: Sleep may be the price you pay for brain to remain plastic the next day
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- The Hindustan Times
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- August 26, 2008
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Washington, Aug. 26 -- While the importance of sleep is something that everyone agrees to, there are still many mysteries surrounding its function and how essential it is. Now, a group of scientists have tried to define the core function of the 'activity', which they say, 'might be the price one pays pay so that their brain can be plastic the next day.'
The study has been published this week in PLoS Biology.
The study by Chiara Cirelli and Giulio Tononi rejects the hypothesis that sleep is merely a way to impose a quiet, immobile state (rest), and isn't important by itself in mammals and birds.
The search for the core ...
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