Poe Gina R
Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-7246
J Neurosci. 2017 Jan 18;37(3):464-473. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0820-16.2017.
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.
可以说，睡眠的一项基本功能可能是清除“垃圾”，即清除并“遗忘”一整天积累下来的信息，这些信息会使界定我们自身的突触网络变得杂乱。也有可能睡眠的这种清理功能是神经科学的一个普遍原理，适用于每一个拥有神经系统的生物。
