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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

By Laura Sanders

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