PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gina R. Poe
TI  - Sleep Is for Forgetting
AID  - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0820-16.2017
DP  - 2017 Jan 18
TA  - The Journal of Neuroscience
PG  - 464--473
VI  - 37
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/37/3/464.short
4100  - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/37/3/464.full
SO  - J. Neurosci.2017 Jan 18; 37
AB  - It is possible that one of the essential functions of sleep is to take out the garbage, as it were, erasing and “forgetting” information built up throughout the day that would clutter the synaptic network that defines us. It may also be that this cleanup function of sleep is a general principle of neuroscience, applicable to every creature with a nervous system.