InstaSleep Reviews Team article notes:
- Chronic lack of sleep also affects us physically, as it’s linked to weight gain, inflammation, diabetes, and heart disease.
- The new study is telling because it elucidates what’s going on at the level of the individual cells.
Why Your Brain Feels So Foggy From Sleep Deprivation
A small new study from UCLA offers some intriguing clues about why we feel so dopey after a night of lost sleep. It looked at the activity of individual brain cells in sleep-deprived patients, and saw that the cells’ behavior changed as the night wore on-and this was directly mirrored in a decline in the participants’ performance on a cognitive task.
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