What Are the Cognitive Effects of Sleep Loss?

Sally Kohn: I'm so glad you brought this up because if we talk, I mean, we've been talking a lot about some of the consequences of sleep loss. You mentioned obesity, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease,. If you're not sleeping, you're not clearing out the amyloid via plaques cancer, you mentioned brain atrophy is another one, right? Learning and memory problems, I guess. She said she was also interested then to understand, well, what are the cognitive effects of sleep loss including learning and memory?Kohn: So usually you might see an increase in 20% in terms of memory retention after you let's say you were to study

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