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Neuroscience Bites-Lack of Sleep

That Neuroscience Guy

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What Happens in the Brain When We Have Trouble Sleeping?

Olav Kroglson is a neuroscientist at the University of Victoria. When we have trouble sleeping, one of the things that pops up right away is we have trouble forming new memories. There's also disruption in the prefrontal cortex and the parietal lobes which leads to the creation of false memories. Another thing that definitely comes up when we have a lack of sleep is we have more anger.

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