image: Electron microscopy image of mouse cortex, showing a passing dendrite (d), and some spines with synapses (asterisks). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 3 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by L. de Vivo at University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI, and colleagues was titled, "Ultrastructural evidence for synaptic scaling across the wake/sleep cycle." view more
Credit: Wisconsin Center for Sleep and Consciousness