Sleep strengthens some synapses
Mice show signs of stronger neuron connections when allowed to snooze after learning a trick

SLEEP STUDY After a post-learning snooze, mouse nerve cells (shown) had more newly formed docking sites for other nerve cells (filled arrowheads).
G. Yang et al/Science 2014
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