Adding to our knowledge about the connection between sleep and mental health, researchers from the University of Rochester and N.Y.U. find that sleep creates the conditions for a greater exchange of cerebrospinal fluid with interstitial fluid in the brain, which in turn promotes increased removal of potentially neurotoxic waste products that accumulate during brain activity while awake.
Xie, L., Kang, H., Xu, Q., Chen, M., et al; Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain. Science. 18 October 2013: 342(6156) 373-377. DOI: 10.1126/science.1241224
Of further interest:
Sleep Allows Brain to Wash out Junk (Science News)
Sleep: The Brain’s Housekeeper? (Science)
Sleep It Out (Science)
antipsychotics effects on REM ( rapid eye movement ) sleep and SWS (Slow-wave sleep) are unclear.
Review of Sleep Medicine
Elsevier Health Sciences, Aug 6, 2011
by Drs. Alon Avidan and Teri Barkoukis
http://books.google.ca/books?id=vPJx5OCK66kC&lpg=PA289&ots=m5xwpeXh5t&dq=antipsychotics%20inhibit%20REM%20sleep&pg=PA289#v=onepage&q=antipsychotics%20inhibit%20REM%20sleep&f=false
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IMO, these articles on sleep are so *vital*, and I appreciate MIA’s collecting them as resources.
Thank you, Kermit, et al.
Duane
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