A four-year-long study on mice shows that sleep makes some neural connections stronger and larger, while others are weakened or destroyed to make space for new memories. Neural connections' strengthening along with learning increases brain's energy consumption and may overload its information processing capacity, a scientist said, adding that sleep normalises overall strength of the connections.
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