Brain garbage removal (Introduction)

by David Turell, (4756 days ago)

This may be the reason for sleep. Clean up the mess every day after a hard period of thinking. A new cleanup system is found:-http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/brains-flush-toxic-waste-in-sleep-including-alzheimers-linked-protein-study-of-mice-finds/2013/10/19/9af49e40-377a-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines

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Brain garbage removal

by George Jelliss ⌂, Crewe, (4755 days ago) @ David Turell

That's pretty much the theory of the purpose of sleep that I've long found the most convincing, from my own experience. So it's nice to have some experimental corroboration.-I saw another article recently about IBM using an "artificial blood" system to cool a computer, by analogy with the way the brain operates. I think it said the human brain only works on 20 watts!

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by David Turell, (4755 days ago) @ George Jelliss

George: I saw another article recently about IBM using > an "artificial blood" system to cool a computer, > by analogy with the way the brain operates. > I think it said the human brain only works on 20 watts!-Energy conservation! But it is said the brain takes 1/4-1/5 of all our caloric output per day.