The function of sleep
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Postgraduate Medical Journal
- Vol. 52 (603) , 15-18
- https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.52.603.15
Abstract
Summary: Evidence is reviewed that points to sleep as a time during which synthetic processes for growth and repair are enhanced. REM (paradoxical) sleep seems especially related to increased synthetic processes in the brain.Keywords
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