Lack of sleep can make you

According to researchers, just 2 hours of sleep deprivation is enough to stop your brain from censoring and storing memories. And "brainwashing" like this can be very easy when you reduce the number of hours of sleep every day from 8 hours to 6 hours.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Neurology Association, research author Ted Abel said: "I think what's really meaningful in modern life is, sleep is not a luxury. It's real. extremely essential for the brain and for the brain to complete its function, enabling you to memorize and reinforce events that happened to you during the day. "

According to the Daily Mail, Professor Abel and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania (USA) looked at how experimental mice were deprived of sleep time, disturbing the process of remembering information. Specifically, mice were kept awake for different periods of time to determine how long sleep loss would undermine their recall.

The team found that, when deprived of sleep time of experimental organisms, their ability to store information was reduced. More importantly, they found that a very short sleep period was lost - only 3 hours (for mice that were 20% equivalent to 24 hours of sleep time) - well enough to prevent the process. try to remember. In humans, this is equivalent to a daily sleep time of 8 hours to 6 hours.

Professor Abel's group also discovered that there is a key stage to consolidate memories after learning or receiving information. This means that insomnia at certain times can be more harmful at other times. The researchers claim that any memory is lost because humans do not have enough time to take a nap that can be permanently irreversible. Therefore, sleeping longer on the next night will not be able to recover lost memories.

Neil Stanley, one of England's leading sleep experts, stressed: "The importance of sleep is that it allows the brain to do things that cannot be done during the day because it is too busy. Sleep is time Quiet, giving the brain time to do record keeping. "

Dr. Stanley, who established international standard sleep labs at Surrey University before becoming a freelance sleep consultant, added that the lack of memory consolidation can lead to "miserable" to forget to carry out simple tasks, such as forgetting to go to buy coffee for her husband or an appointment to shop with you.