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The brain starts to eat itself after chronic sleep deprivation


 This suggests that sleep loss can trigger astrocytes to start breaking down more of the brain’s connections and their debris. “We show for the first time that portions of synapses are literally eaten by astrocytes because of sleep loss,” says Bellesi.

 But the team also found that microglial cells were more active after chronic sleep deprivation.