Sleep plays essential role in ensuring the brain receives necessary repairs: Study

The findings add to the evidence that mechanisms related to sleep play an essential role in ensuring that the brain receives necessary repairs and continues to function correctly.

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Sleep allows immune cells to do maintenance work on the brain. (Photo: File Photo)

It’s often said that having a sound sleep helps in rejuvenating the body. And now, a new research has put more emphasis on this subject. A team of researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have discovered that sleep allows immune cells to do maintenance work on the brain.