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Time to Be SHY? Some Comments on Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis
Sleep must serve an essential, universal function, one that offsets the risk of being disconnected from the environment. The synaptic homeostasis hypothesis (SHY) is an attempt to identify this essential function. Its core claim is that sleep is needed to reestablish synaptic homeostasis, which is c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350977/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22619736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/415250 |
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description | Sleep must serve an essential, universal function, one that offsets the risk of being disconnected from the environment. The synaptic homeostasis hypothesis (SHY) is an attempt to identify this essential function. Its core claim is that sleep is needed to reestablish synaptic homeostasis, which is challenged by the remarkable plasticity of the brain. In other words, sleep is “the price we pay for plasticity.” In this issue, M. G. Frank reviewed several aspects of the hypothesis and raised several issues. The comments below provide a brief summary of the motivations underlying SHY and clarify that SHY is a hypothesis not about specific mechanisms, but about a universal, essential function of sleep. This function is the preservation of synaptic homeostasis in the face of a systematic bias toward a net increase in synaptic strength—a challenge that is posed by learning during adult wake, and by massive synaptogenesis during development. |
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spelling | pubmed-33509772012-05-22 Time to Be SHY? Some Comments on Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis Tononi, Giulio Cirelli, Chiara Neural Plast Review Article Sleep must serve an essential, universal function, one that offsets the risk of being disconnected from the environment. The synaptic homeostasis hypothesis (SHY) is an attempt to identify this essential function. Its core claim is that sleep is needed to reestablish synaptic homeostasis, which is challenged by the remarkable plasticity of the brain. In other words, sleep is “the price we pay for plasticity.” In this issue, M. G. Frank reviewed several aspects of the hypothesis and raised several issues. The comments below provide a brief summary of the motivations underlying SHY and clarify that SHY is a hypothesis not about specific mechanisms, but about a universal, essential function of sleep. This function is the preservation of synaptic homeostasis in the face of a systematic bias toward a net increase in synaptic strength—a challenge that is posed by learning during adult wake, and by massive synaptogenesis during development. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3350977/ /pubmed/22619736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/415250 Text en Copyright © 2012 G. Tononi and C. Cirelli. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Tononi, Giulio Cirelli, Chiara Time to Be SHY? Some Comments on Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis |
title | Time to Be SHY? Some Comments on Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis |
title_full | Time to Be SHY? Some Comments on Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis |
title_fullStr | Time to Be SHY? Some Comments on Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis |
title_full_unstemmed | Time to Be SHY? Some Comments on Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis |
title_short | Time to Be SHY? Some Comments on Sleep and Synaptic Homeostasis |
title_sort | time to be shy? some comments on sleep and synaptic homeostasis |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350977/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22619736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/415250 |
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