Sleep/Wake Potentiation

This is a collection of arguments and evidence on whether sleep or wake (or both) is potentiating connections/excitability of neurons.

Potentiation during Sleep

 * Firing rates (FR) in V1 were found to generally increase over the course of ad lib sleep. When looking at the time course of individual bouts, REM led to a slight decrease in FR when mice were exposed to only a blank screen, and to a large increase when exposed to orientation gratings. Wake was opposite.