{"id":34078,"date":"2017-02-02T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T07:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/how-the-brain-resets-during-sleep"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:47:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:47:55","slug":"how-the-brain-resets-during-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/how-the-brain-resets-during-sleep","title":{"rendered":"How the Brain Resets During Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-the-brain-resets-during-sleep.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brain resets during sleep; guess why I need my 5 shot espressos in the morning.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>Summary: Researchers examine if the size of synapses alters during sleep and wake states.<\/p>\n<p>Source: University of Wisconsin Madison.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Striking electron microscope pictures from inside the brains of mice suggest what happens in our own brain every day: Our synapses \u2013 the junctions between nerve cells \u2013 grow strong and large during the stimulation of daytime, then shrink by nearly 20 percent while we sleep, creating room for more growth and learning the next day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The four-year research project published today in <em>Science<\/em> offers a direct visual proof of the \u201csynaptic homeostasis hypothesis\u201d (SHY) proposed by Drs. Chiara Cirelli and Giulio Tononi of the Wisconsin Center for Sleep and Consciousness.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/sleep-brain-reset-6047\/\">http:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/sleep-brain-reset-6047\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain resets during sleep; guess why I need my 5 shot espressos in the morning. Summary: Researchers examine if the size of synapses alters during sleep and wake states. Source: University of Wisconsin Madison. Striking electron microscope pictures from inside the brains of mice suggest what happens in our own brain every day: Our synapses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34078","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65213,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34078\/revisions\/65213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}