Josh
February 1, 2018, 5:48pm
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“Summary: Sleep deprivation appears to be more detrimental to working memory in females, a new study reports.”
Over the last few decades, a wealth of evidence has accumulated to suggest that a lack of sleep is bad for mind and body. Working memory is important for keeping things in mind for briefer periods of time, which thereby facilitates reasoning and planning. A team of sleep scientists from Uppsala University now demonstrates that acute sleep loss impacts working memory differently in women and men.
Full article: Pulling an All-Nighter Impairs Working Memory in Women
Half an hour ago, the following email arrived, also on the subject of women’s sleep. The Nunes memo seems to have taken a back seat
Anything related to sleep problems interests me. (On a related subject - I’m doing quite well with self-hypnosis.)
Contents of email:
Although my wife is a good sleeper, she does
(All good sleepers do.)
Unfortunately, whenever she has a bad night,
It’s not so much the tossing and turning. It’s
Interestingly, a study published in the journal
The study found that when a woman’s sleep
In other words:
When a woman gets less sleep, her male bed
When a woman gets more sleep, her male bed
Interestingly, the study found that a man’s sleep duration had no influence on his female bed partner’s sleep!
[OG: That’s a real hen-and-egg situation. How do you prove that?]
(This suggests that a woman’s sleep may be more affected by daytime influences.)
So, what’s the takeaway here?
If you struggle with sleep and share your bed with a partner, it may be a good idea to sleep in separate rooms until your sleep improves. [OG: In the same way as the Queen has always slept in a different room from the D of E - except when… (I’ve forgotten what I was going to say)]
Source: Sleep Health
I assume he’s referring to the following US site. The actual page has about 20 links to articles on sleep:
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