Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

REM sleep promotes experience-dependent dendritic spine elimination in the mouse cortex

  • Yanmei Zhou,
  • Cora Sau Wan Lai,
  • Yang Bai,
  • Wei Li,
  • Ruohe Zhao,
  • Guang Yang,
  • Marcos G. Frank,
  • Wen-Biao Gan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18592-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Sleep plays an important role in learning and memory. Here the authors show that experience dependent elimination of spines is attenuated by REM sleep deprivation.