Remember more by sleeping more
Categories: Diet & Weight Loss
By now most people know that sleep is good for you, and that sleep deprivation is bad for you in more ways than one. Well a new study published online in Nature Neuroscience has found yet another negative side effect to add to the "not getting enough sleep" pile: sleep deprivation impairs your brain's ability to make new memories.
What's interesting is that I always thought the information was in there, but I just had trouble remembering it when I was tired. This study seems to show that if you're sleep deprived anything new you try to learn or remember really won't be there -- it doesn't get committed to memory. So no matter how much sleep you "catch up" on later, some memories from that sleepy day just won't exist.
Wow, this explains a lot.
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Lisa 2-18-2007 @ 12:43AM
I've known to "sleep on it" to enhance learning for decades. I first noticed that things that just wouldn't go into my head properly were there the next morning when I awoke when I was in Army technical training. I went on to make full use of the phenomenon at my next training stop: the intensive Basic Russian Course at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. That was 20 years ago. Funny thing--I'm still not half bad at Russian even though I haven't actively used the language in about 15 years now. Sleeping to learn works.
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