Neuronal

Perception and behavior emerge from the coordinated and orchestrated activity of neurons in brain circuits. Individual, functionally coherent neurons form ensembles, which become the building blocks of large-scale circuitry to drive the…

Beyond down-regulating cortical activity, sleep also promotes long-term memory formation and the strengthening of synaptic connections. It is possible that both core sleep stages, slow-wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep,…