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Friday, February 16, 2018

Can’t sleep? Blame your ageing brain | World Economic Forum

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New research suggests that as we age, we start losing the neuronal connections that pick up on sleepiness cues. Researchers from Berkeley published a paper in the journal Neuron, saying that we are less able to get the sleep we need because of changes in our brains. The lead author of the study, Matthew Walker, told Popular Science: “It’s almost like a radio antenna that’s weak. The signal is there, but the antenna just can’t pick it up.”
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