Dying Without Sleep

There are more and more studies about how sleep affects our organism and especially the brain.

A group of researchers from Los Angeles medical school and Tel Aviv University in Israel confirmed that lack of sleep has a severe impact on how the brain works.

Your brain's lack of sleep is like drinking alcohol and even more.

We discovered that lack of food and sleep deprive neurons of a functioning capacity. This paves the way for cognitive mistakes about how we perceive and react to the world around us.

Researchers worked with over 12 people with epilepsis and noticed that convulsions were driven by insomnia. The participants were asked to classify different images as soon as they could. It was noted that the more sleepless and tired the participants were, the harder the task was for them and slower as executions.

Sleep deprivation causes nerve cells to slow down and thus affect nervous communication. Researchers found that nerve cells that delayed in time to answer were linked to slower brain waves compared to those that are usually recorded during sleep stages and that this activity was in the same brain areas, writes the World.al. These slow waves interrupt crebral activity and influence task performance. This phenomenon suggests that the selective areas of the brain were sleepy, and this causes mental error, while the rest of the brain is smart and functions as usual,”- explains Fried.

Researchers compared sleep deprivation with excessive alcohol consumption. That is also why it is recommended that there be measures when given a sleepy car. It is similar with alcohol consumption.