[Study of the functions of sleep].
Sleep is present in all species where it has been studied, but its functions remain unknown. To investigate what benefits sleep may bring, many aproaches and theories exist; some of them are presented in this paper (restorative, protective, energy consevation, evolutionary, sleep deprivation, and selective sleep deprivation, protein synthesis, neural plasticity).
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D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*