Research Hit: Deficits From Chronic Sleep Loss Still Present After One Week

Ok, ok, I don’t want to bang on about sleep too much. I’m not a sleep expert (rather the brain and behaviour), it’s just that there’s been a bunch of research coming out about sleep. But sleep just is very, very important for physical and mental health, and optimal performance.

I reported yesterday on how dreaming increases the flow red blood cells in capillaries in the brain. Previously I also reported on how naps can’t compensate for sleep loss and how sleep affects everything (including fat metabolism).

So what does this latest research show?

Well, what these researchers, around Jeremi Ochab of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, were interested in, is how quickly people recover from chronic sleep loss.