How Deep Sleep Prompts the Consolidation of Recent Memories
Memories acquired during wakefulness and stored in the hippocampus are progressively transferred to the cortex as long-term memory during sleep.
Memories acquired during wakefulness and stored in the hippocampus are progressively transferred to the cortex as long-term memory during sleep.
‘My Life Asleep is an online tool that calculates how many hours a person has slept in his lifetime, how many calories were burnt while sleeping and what the person could have achieved in the time he spent shut-eye.
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It may sound exciting to know about the hours you have dedicated to the bed all your life, but another feature that may seem unpleasant is that the calculator also tells about the things you may have achieved if you had not slept for so much time in your life. The My Life Asleep tool gives you the average number of days, weeks and years you have spent shut-eye based on your age. For example, a person aged 30 years could have slept for more than 13 years, the time sufficient to build an Eiffel tower or make the film gravity.
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Cognitive Functioning of Women Gets Hampered by Working Late Nights
Sleep deprivation can have an adverse effect on our biological cycle. But women may be more affected by night-shift work than men.
Sleep deprivation can have an adverse effect on our biological cycle. But women may be more affected by night-shift work than men.
Sleeping for Just Six Hours May Not Be Good in the Long Haul
If you’re only getting six hours of sleep each night, you might be just as sleep deprived as someone who got zero hours of sleep for two days.
If you’re only getting six hours of sleep each night, you might be just as sleep deprived as someone who got zero hours of sleep for two days.
United States is a Sleep Deprived Nation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
White people are most likely to get enough of sleep as about 67% of Hispanics have a healthy sleep duration when compared to 54% of African-Americans.
White people are most likely to get enough of sleep as about 67% of Hispanics have a healthy sleep duration when compared to 54% of African-Americans.
