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Prof. Gina Poe of UCLA on Sleep

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Do Students Benefit From a Nap?

Some people benefit from nat and apparently some people don't. A denisine builds up during wakefulness, no matter what you're doing. So it's just the the fact that you're awake just expends a lot of energy. There's also something called p waves, thes big glutymaturgic surges after an intensive learning period. And if you block that 300 % increase, you get the inability to incorporate new information into our old scheme.

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