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2. Sleep deprivation - Wikipedia

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   Sleep deprivation, also known as sleep insufficiency [2] or sleeplessness, is the condition of not having adequate duration and/or quality of sleep to support decent alertness, performance, and health. It can be either chronic or acute and may vary widely in severity.

3. Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance

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   Studies using event-related potential (ERP) recordings have found that twenty-four hours of sleep deprivation decreases ERP response to signal inputs from endogenous, but not exogenous, sources. Therefore, it is suggested that sleep deprivation affects endogenously-driven selective attention to a greater extent than exogenously-driven selected ...

4. Sleep and memory - Wikipedia

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   Young woman asleep over study materials. The relationship between sleep and memory has been studied since at least the early 19th century.Memory, the cognitive process of storing and retrieving past experiences, learning and recognition, [1] is a product of brain plasticity, the structural changes within synapses that create associations between stimuli.

5. Do you fall asleep with the TV on every night? Here's what ...

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   However, he says our brain can limit sensory processing that allows us to sleep even if there is noise in the background. “Some people are more sensitive than others, and some stimuli are more ...

6. Not getting enough sleep could increase your risk of ... - AOL

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   Not getting enough sleep doesn't feel good — and could have some scary long-term consequences. Insufficient or poor-quality sleep has been shown to wreck short term memory, cause weight gain ...

7. Is 7 hours of sleep a night enough? Sleep doctors weigh in - AOL

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   Not getting enough sleep can seriously impair cognitive ability and executive functioning, leading to slower reaction times and poorer working memory or performance, Dr. Andrew Varga, a ...

8. Sleep - Wikipedia

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   Sleeping Girl, Domenico Fetti, c. 1615 . Sleep is a state of reduced mental and physical activity in which consciousness is altered and certain sensory activity is inhibited. . During sleep, there is a marked decrease in muscle activity and interactions with the surrounding environm

9. Exercise and deep sleep give the brain a 24-hour boost - AOL

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   Improvement to cognitive performance caused by exercise could last for 24 hours, a new study shows. Scientists also linked getting 6 or more hours of sleep to better memory test scores the next day.