Study: Sleeplessness Causes Our Mental Circuits to Overheat

Forbes:

We intuitively know that sleep is important, and a great deal of research on the health effects of sleeplessness backs up this belief. But what exactly is going on in our brains when we don't get enough shuteye?

Read the whole story: Forbes

Comments

[alnicov]

08:46 AM on 02/26/2012

That must be why some people are hotheads.

[Elyriaohio]

07:19 AM on 02/26/2012

The lack of cause-and-effect symptoms in this article makes my mental circuits over-heat.

[Bucket-Of-Love]

01:09 AM on 02/26/2012

On a related note, there are studies that support that depression is a natural, evolution-based mechanism of the brain to protect from excessive neuronal activity and damage to the 5HT1A receptor -- a way of cooling down over-firing of the circuitry.

In our over-stimulated society, we have become conditioned to the point that all the stimulation isn't even enough. Vast changes over the past 100 or so years, such as a electricity producing an always-on world, and the constant media flow, persist almost entirely unquestioned. We pay a heavy price for it, however.

[pepper1311]

04:01 AM on 02/26/2012

Tin foil hats will stop the waves.

[g9]

09:59 PM on 02/25/2012

"What Happens To Your Brain When You Don't Sleep"
i don't know ...Do you vote for newt or sanitorium.....?

[Nathan R Wren]

01:06 AM on 02/26/2012

Newt. *Hurl*

[bestoftimes1]

11:56 AM on 02/26/2012

You vote for Biden!

[Scoop511]

09:11 PM on 02/25/2012

If I wanted to go to Forbes site, I'd be there. I'm here, the story isn't though.

[Genders]

09:02 PM on 02/25/2012

Shut up and go back to work, serfs.

[prodemlib]

08:18 PM on 02/25/2012

wow! this article says NOTHING!

[Steven Barnes]

07:57 PM on 02/25/2012

Some sleep tips:
1) Create an evening ritual to calm yourself down. Include three different approaches to relaxing and quieting your mind.
2) Don't eat within three hours of bed time.
3) Relaxing yoga-type gentle stretching for the back and sides can release tension from the body very effectively.

http://tinyurl.com/85m7hta

[Bucket-Of-Love]

12:52 AM on 02/26/2012

4) Unfiltered light containing blue and green wavelengths prevents melatonin production, and may appears to have stimulative effect on the brain. Avoid light in the last couple or few hours of the day. It may sound silly, but not to anyone 100 years ago or more before electrically produced light changed circadian rhythms.

This includes:

- Turning off lights
- Avoiding or filtering light from televisions
- Installing F.lux (or similar) software on your computer, SunFilter (or similar) on your phone, which incrementally changes the screen's gamma setting by filtering out blue and green light.

[pepper1311]

04:02 AM on 02/26/2012

Sex beats you long drawn out BS

[TheOuroborus]

07:12 PM on 02/25/2012

You had me at the picture of a girl in bed with her mouth open.

[RoryBellows]

06:27 PM on 02/25/2012

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[ginocat55]

06:56 PM on 02/25/2012

LOL

[Nathan R Wren]

01:02 AM on 02/26/2012

and BOOM. thew connection is made....one degree of separation...one degree. http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/17/tip-for-insomniacs-cool-your-head-to-fall-asleep/

[Katina Cooper]

05:40 PM on 02/25/2012

It also causes you to get a bit miffed after studying half the day and then making a c omment only to see it show up a half hour later due to the s cared people and the computer that scans for the millions of key words.

[babybecks]

06:19 PM on 02/25/2012

I'm always a little surprised at the words that get your comment sent to the sky. The list grows longer everyday based on my observations.

[natal plum]

05:16 PM on 02/25/2012

I get up and snack every 20 minutes

[hattie54]

11:50 PM on 02/25/2012

I bet you don't or you'd weight 300 by now.

[natal plum]

09:38 AM on 02/26/2012

Helps that I am a long distance runner who runs every day. If not I'd be closer to 400