Sleep is IMPORTANT

A good night’s sleep leads to greater consolidation of a newly learned motor task than performing the same task not followed by sleep, new research shows. “I think sleep has always intrigued a lot of people because not everyone even today believes sleep contributes to useful active processing in the brain,” Karen Debas, PhD, neuropsychologist,…

Sleep Helps Our Memory

Every night, while we lie asleep, blind, dumb and almost paralyzed, our brains are hard at work. Neurons in the sleeping brain fire nearly as often as they do in a waking state, and they consume almost as much energy. What is the point of this unceasing activity at a time when we are supposedly…