Specialists Medical School

It is known that sleep is vital for effective work of the brain, so it's important research of processes that occur in cells of the body, neurons during sleep and wakefulness. Both these processes are studied long time. In a study of the state of the human ispolzuyutsya only the most modern methods of research: magnetic resonance imaging - MRI, electroencephalography - EEG registration due potentials and other methods. It was developed and published many papers explaining certain processes in the brain structures during sleep or wakefulness of living things. In their experiments on rats and insects (flies Drosophila) Specialists Medical School of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a theory of "synaptic homeostasis," which identified the capacity for learning and brain information processing of living things. Scientists believe that the size of the synapse (the neurons responsible for the analysis of information received from the external environment during waking hours) increases in activity of the brain and decreases during sleep.

It was determined one of protein compounds, Bruchpilot (BRP), involved in this process. Researchers believe that daily fluctuations in the level of this protein (30 - 40%) were caused, obtaining information from the environment (recorded growth of synapses) and its analysis, distribution, archiving during sleep (decrease in protein and synapses return to its original position). This theory also explains the fact why a person gets tired during intellectual work, because the more information received, the higher the level of protein, the more energy is required for its store. Now become clear expert advice - sleep and neurologists, to a regime of sleep, alternate intellectual work with physical, a walk before bedtime, etc. All of these rules contribute to the intensification of metabolic processes in the body, deep sleep and prepare the brain for further fruitful work. Thus, quality purification structures of the brain during sleep - a pledge of cheerfulness and well-being on awakening. Thus the famous proverb - "sleep on it", received its scientific justification.