How Sleep Deprivation Fries Your Brain
Todd Maddox, a psychology professor at the Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Texas in Austin, tries to understand what exactly is going wrong in the impaired brain, whether it is impaired by lack of sleep, normal aging or as a result of diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. "The brain regions that are impaired when you are sleep-deprived are the same ones that are impaired with aging," he says.
via forbes.com
