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| When the going gets tough, have a nap |
| 2018-10-10 |
| [BBC] When her daughter was preschool-aged, Rebecca Spencer experienced something familiar to many parents and childminders: the power of a nap. Without it, her daughter would be giddy, grumpy, or both. Spencer, a neuroscientist focusing on sleep at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, wanted to investigate the science behind this anecdotal experience. "The observation of a lot of people is that a napless kid is emotionally dysregulated," she says. "So that spurred us to ask this question of, ’Do naps actually do something to process emotions?’" Research has already shown that, in general, sleep helps us make sense of emotions. Sleep plays a key role in encoding information based on experiences from the day, making sleep critical for preserving memories. And emotional memories are unique because of the way they activate the amygdala, the brain’s emotional core. "Amygdala activation is what allows your wedding day and the funeral of your parents to be a day better remembered, more than just any other day of work," Spencer says. Sleep related: Richard Branson tells Elon Musk to stop tweeting and get some more sleep |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 "Just keep it out of the cockpit." I dont know, I've put the pilot to sleep after takeoff and woken him up just as the autopilot was becoming moot |
| Posted by: 746 2018-10-10 12:03 |
| #9 Code writers run on caffeine, not sleep. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-10-10 11:54 |
| #8 Code writers run on caffeine, not sleep. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-10-10 11:43 |
| #7 Without it, her daughter would be giddy, grumpy, or both. #me2 |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-10-10 10:45 |
| #6 Naps are glorious |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-10-10 10:33 |
| #5 "Just keep it out of the cockpit." Won't matter B..AI will fly the planes..just make sure the code writers get enough sleep |
| Posted by: Warthog 2018-10-10 09:53 |
| #4 Just keep it out of the cockpit. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-10-10 08:33 |
| #3 Surprising this wasn't discovered years ago, given the amount of napping I saw in UMASS-A classrooms. |
| Posted by: Tholuling Sproing3798 2018-10-10 08:31 |
| #2 Works for Sessions. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-10-10 08:11 |
| #1 Then there's the whole "let's relax a bit and don't think about it" effect. Works for me. Litterally. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2018-10-10 07:26 |