“…way for brain recovery during sleep could be through neuroglobin synthesis; these proteins could help to improve neuronal survival by ROS degradation, oxygen transport facilitation and NAD+ regeneration under hypoxia conditions. Interestingly, 3 days of sleep recovery after REMSD are sufficient to counteract these cellular changes (Biswas et al, 2006;Majumdar & Mallick, 2005). These results suggest that sleep could prevent neuronal damage through the maintenance of cell integrity and neuronal survival by preservation of cytoskeleton proteins (Biswas et al, 2006), regulation of anti-and pro-apoptotic protein expression (Biswas et al, 2006;Montes-Rodriguez et al, 2009) or through the expression of genes involved in the maintenance of different cellular processes; such as cholesterol and protein synthesis, synaptic vesicle formation, antioxidant enzymes synthesis, etc.…”