{"id":204822,"date":"2025-01-29T08:26:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/we-might-finally-know-how-the-brain-refreshes-itself-at-night"},"modified":"2025-01-29T08:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:26:30","slug":"we-might-finally-know-how-the-brain-refreshes-itself-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/we-might-finally-know-how-the-brain-refreshes-itself-at-night","title":{"rendered":"We Might Finally Know How The Brain Refreshes Itself at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KU3CKVJiFx4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you lay your head down to sleep tonight and dream all things weird and wonderful, scientists think your brain is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hidden-waves-wash-fluid-through-the-brain-while-you-sleep\">going through a gentle rinse cycle<\/a>, washing away a day\u2019s worth of toxic by-products in preparation for a new day of thinking ahead.<\/p>\n<p>But the mechanisms behind this neurological cleansing system have yet to be described in detail.<\/p>\n<p>Now researchers from the University of Copenhagen have applied a suite of technologies to map the subtle rise and fall of neurotransmitters, blood volume, and spinal fluid in mice as they go about their day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you lay your head down to sleep tonight and dream all things weird and wonderful, scientists think your brain is going through a gentle rinse cycle, washing away a day\u2019s worth of toxic by-products in preparation for a new day of thinking ahead. But the mechanisms behind this neurological cleansing system have yet to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}