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From: fransvo@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Frans van Otten)
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Subject: The function of dream sleep (REM sleep)
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Date: 11 Feb 91 16:59:47 GMT
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Recently I read a book about neural networks.  This book contained a
pointer to an article in Nature about the function of dream sleep (the
ref is: The function of dream sleep, F.Crick and G.Mitchison, Nature 304,
111, 1983).  In this article, a theory is postulated that explains REM
sleep as a method the brain uses to remove parasitic modes in the
forebrain.  I wonder:  Has there ever been a follow-up on that article ?
Or has anyone ever seen another explanation of the function of REM sleep
along these same lines ?

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Frans van Otten                     |
Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam       |   fransvo@maestro.htsa.aha.nl
Technische en Maritieme Faculteit   |   or  [backbone!]htsa!fransvo