"Sleep deprivation cause rat's brain to eat itself".

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Maybe

>>9149832
Wtf does "eat itself" mean?

>>9149856
The brain start pruning synapses

>>9149832
humans evolved because they were able to use their brains

rats just breed constantly to survive, they don't need to be as smart

>>9149832
>But it's not proven to cause the same in humans.

And how would they prove this? Make humans sleep deprived just long enough to euthanize them and slice up their brains?

>>9149866
What make you think that they killed the rats to study them?

>>9149871
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317101989_Sleep_Loss_Promotes_Astrocytic_Phagocytosis_and_Microglial_Activation_in_Mouse_Cerebral_Cortex
>confocal microscopy

>>9149880
Well yeah in page 2 says they killed the rats

>>9149863
being smarter would only indicate that it could happen faster.

Well I'm fucked then cos I barely sleep.

>>9149860
which is a normal aspect of brain development. infact, im sure synaptic pruning occurs during sleep as well.

use a different phrase.

>>9149871
You have to kill the rats to get inside their heads to see the pruning. you can't do this non-invasively.