Too much of a good thing? Elevated baseline sleep spindles predict poor avoidance performance in rats

Abstract Sleep spindles may be involved in synaptic plasticity. Learning-dependent increases in spindles have been observed in both humans and rats. In humans, the innate (i.e., baseline) number of spindles correlate with measures of academic potential such as Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests. The p...

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