Prof. Gina Poe of UCLA on Sleep
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How Does Sleep Deprive Your Forebrain?
During sleep, our forebrain is really off. And if you're sleep deprived, your pre frontal cortex has to work twice as hard in order to accomplish the same tasks. The one time during sleep when that pro t that pre frontal cortex is on is during a transitional state when the hippocampus is firing bursts of activity coincident with re activating memories. That might be when we're sewing new information into old Schema. But it's brief, yes? and so it might be these, these dissociated states, are when this happens, that it's brief but it's super powerful. It can rewrite our memories. It can change our minds. It canchange the way we see the world
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