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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yanmei Zhou, Cora Sau Wan Lai, Yang Bai, Wei Li, Ruohe Zhao, Guang Yang, Marcos G. Frank, Wen-Biao Gan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18592-5