Sleep Deprivation Can Whitewash Your Brain for New Learning

The hippocampus is the central reservoir for where you create new fact base textbook like memories. Sleep deprivation will attack and block your brain's capacity for new learning. The more of these sleep spindles that you are having at night seem to accurately predict the degree to which your hippocampus is refreshed and restored in terms of its renewed learning capacity the next day.

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