1756: "What Happens When You Skip Sleep?"
Episode Ep 1756 2 min 40s

1756: "What Happens When You Skip Sleep?"

Interesting Things with JC #1756: "What Happens When You Skip Sleep?" – Stay awake long enough and adenosine signaling increases sleep pressure while caffeine can temporarily block the feeling of it. Attention, judgment, and memory become less reliable, and eventually the brain can force seconds-long microsleeps into wakefulness even while you are still functioning.

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