Sleep Deprivation Alters Hippocampal Dendritic Spines in a Contextual Fear Memory Engram
Matthew Tennin, Hunter T. Matkins, Lindsay Rexrode, Ratna Bollavarapu, Samuel D. Asplund, Tanya Pareek, Daniel Kroeger, Harry Pantazopoulos, Barbara Gisabella
The paper investigates how sleep deprivation affects dendritic spine density in neurons encoding contextual fear memories, finding reduced spine density in sleep-deprived mice.
Scientific Reports · Feb 24, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience