There is a protein present in the brain called amyloid beta. When this toxin is not flushed out properly by the body, it builds up and can cause neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s. When you are awake, amyloid beta levels in the brain go up, and during sleep, they go down. The core of Iliff’s research lies in determining why the levels go up during the day and go down at night.
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Dr. Zadra points out that there is a continuation between what people experience in their waking life and what they experience in their dreams. Through dream analysis, Dr. Zadra can gain an understanding of a person’s psychological well-being.
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The Sleep And Chronobiology laboratory at the University Of Colorado has developed a study that links sleep deprivation with weight gain and obesity.
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Dr. Killgore contends that cutting your sleep by as little as a few hours can alter emotional intelligence and decisionmaking and alters the connectivity between areas of the brain.
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Dr. Stickgold suggests that a proper night of sleep is needed to effectively “file away” memories for later recall. Insufficient sleep after learning could cause a person’s learning experience to not get filed away at all, even if that person gets a large amount of sleep on the subsequent days following the learning experience.
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