What Sleep Deprivation Does To Your Body
Ever wondered why everything seems funnier when you're tired? Scientists think it might be because your brain is basically drunk. How This Poo Problem Could Destroy The Hawaiian Islands...
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[Yawning] Where are my car keys? Hey sleepyheads, Jules here for Dnews! We’ve all been there. You stay up until 5am studying because you forgot you had a final worth 60% of your grade the next morning. Then, after just an hour or two of sleep, you wander around in a dull haze, like you’re drunk or something. Also you fail your final. In fact, being sleep deprived is not altogether different from being drunk, in regards to feeling impaired, and being unable to complete basic tasks. One study from 2000, done by researchers from Australia and New Zealand, took a group of volunteers and kept them from sleeping for up to 28 hours. Then progressively gave them a series of tests, in areas such as cognitive demand, reaction speed, hand-eye coordination, memory, ...
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[Yawning] Where are my car keys? Hey sleepyheads, Jules here for Dnews! We’ve all been there. You stay up until 5am studying because you forgot you had a final worth 60% of your grade the next morning. Then, after just an hour or two of sleep, you wander around in a dull haze, like you’re drunk or something. Also you fail your final. In fact, being sleep deprived is not altogether different from being drunk, in regards to feeling impaired, and being unable to complete basic tasks. One study from 2000, done by researchers from Australia and New Zealand, took a group of volunteers and kept them from sleeping for up to 28 hours. Then progressively gave them a series of tests, in areas such as cognitive demand, reaction speed, hand-eye coordination, memory, ...
