Chronic lack of sleep doesn’t just mean grogginess, it can impair the simplest of tasks and cause neurological disorders. A comprehensive study has investigated what happens in the brain at neuron level that underlies these disturbing changes in performance.
The EU-funded SLEEPNEED (Cortical neuronal mechanisms of behavioural and cognitive deficits after sleep deprivation) project performed behavioural, electrophysiological and pharmacological experiments. The aim was to investigate behavioural, sensory and cognitive changes resulting from lack of sleep.
Further details: The molecular landscape after sleepless nights