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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 20.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Neurosci. 2020 Jul 20;23(9):1150–1156. doi: 10.1038/s41593-020-0666-y

Table 1.

Functional and neurochemical differences between NREM and REM sleep

NREM sleep REM sleep
E/I balance (plasticity) Up Down
Performance gain Yes No
Stabilization No Yes
Learning specificity No Yes