Sleeping together using social interactions to understand the role of sleep in plasticity.

Advances in Genetics
Jeffrey M Donlea, Paul J Shaw

Abstract

Social experience alters the expression of genes related to synaptic function and plasticity, induces elaborations in the morphology of neural structures throughout the brain (Volkmar and Greenough, 1972; Greenough et al., 1978; Technau, 2007), improves cognitive and behavioral performance (Pham et al., 1999a; Toscano et al., 2006) and alters subsequent sleep (Ganguly-Fitzgerald et al., 2006). In this review, we discuss the plastic mechanisms that are induced in response to social experience and how social enrichment can provide insight into the biological functions of sleep.

Citations

Feb 7, 2012·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Jeffrey DonleaPaul J Shaw
Nov 19, 2013·PloS One·William M VanderheydenPaul J Shaw
Dec 1, 2011·Nordic Journal of Psychiatry·Ilona MerikantoTimo Partonen
Jun 30, 2015·Current Sleep Medicine Reports·Stephane DisselPaul J Shaw
Apr 17, 2013·Physiological Reviews·Björn Rasch, Jan Born
Oct 12, 2019·Science·Chiara Cirelli, Giulio Tononi
Jan 31, 2020·Journal of Neurogenetics·Stephane DisselTroy Zars
Jun 13, 2015·PLoS Computational Biology·Pierre Broly, Jean-Louis Deneubourg
Dec 20, 2014·The Journal of Experimental Biology·Ada Eban-Rothschild, Guy Bloch
Mar 30, 2010·Neuron·Marla B Sokolowski

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