title: [Study of the functions of sleep].
abstract: 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).
authors.forename: Veselinka
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Susić
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*