Scientists have found that a chronic lack of sleep can lead to poor performance when learning new tasks.
A bad night's sleep can make anyone a bit forgetful, but neuroscientists have now discovered a new link between the amount of sleep we get a night, and memory retention.In new research, set to be presented at Neuroscience 2023, a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, held in Washington D.C., scientists found that a chronic lack of sleep in young mice leads to poor performance when learning new tasks.
'Recent neuroscience research is beginning to uncover some of these secrets, including understanding the price of sleep loss on brain function,' he said in a release detailing the findings. 'Further studies show the surprisingly gender-specific gateway to sleep in females and female resilience to sleep loss when sleep is curtailed.
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