{"id":238589,"date":"2026-06-08T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/induction-of-cortical-on-off-periods-in-awake-mice-fulfills-sleep-functions"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:03:00","slug":"induction-of-cortical-on-off-periods-in-awake-mice-fulfills-sleep-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/induction-of-cortical-on-off-periods-in-awake-mice-fulfills-sleep-functions","title":{"rendered":"Induction of cortical on\/off periods in awake mice fulfills sleep functions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/induction-of-cortical-on-off-periods-in-awake-mice-fulfills-sleep-functions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Driessen <i>et al.<\/i> show that core benefits of sleep\u2014reduced local sleep pressure, renormalized synaptic strength and memory consolidation\u2014can be reproduced in awake, behaving mice by inducing sleep-like on\/off activity patterns in cortex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driessen et al. show that core benefits of sleep\u2014reduced local sleep pressure, renormalized synaptic strength and memory consolidation\u2014can be reproduced in awake, behaving mice by inducing sleep-like on\/off activity patterns in cortex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238589","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}