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🚨 🧠💤 Researchers discover that the brain devours itself due to lack of sleep
149 sats \ 4 comments \ @Msd0457890 6 Feb science
Researchers discover that the brain is devouring itself due to lack of sleep.
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A surprising discovery has left the scientific community stunned: when you don't get enough sleep, your brain could be self-destructing. According to a study led by Dr. Michele Bellesi of the Polytechnic University of Marche, lack of sleep causes certain brain cells called astrocytes to indiscriminately eliminate neurons and essential connections.
I find this article about sleep and our body surprising 😴🥱 I invite you to read it and leave me your opinion, I will be very attentive.
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30 sats \ 3 replies \ @south_korea_ln 7 Feb
Link to actual study, from 2017.
“We show for the first time that portions of the synapses are literally eaten by astrocytes because of sleep loss,” Mr Bellesi told the New Scientist. He added that it is not necessarily a bad thing as it could just be the brain’s way of “cleaning” up old brain “debris”.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 OP 7 Feb
It is really a very particular topic, thank you for sharing your opinion with all of us.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 7 Feb
Oh good coz I was gonna say uh oh that's why I'm getting stupider, but actually I'm just forgetting useless things
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 OP 7 Feb
Maybe your memory has become selective and that's great.
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