https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4 Stealing From My Brain en-us 2019-11-20 17:48:39 UTC 2024-06-07 05:28:03 UTC hello@padlet.com coolprudvi11 https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/414188568 David Eagleman writes that in order to fulfill a need or to satisfy itself, the brain can create fake memories. The brain will create a memory of an event that never even happened, in order to get off with a task or to attain self fulfillment.  It can be concluded that depriving the brain of sleep can lead to not only memory loss, which is the most common thought of effect, it can even cause the formation of fake memories that are used to satisfy the individual which makes me wonder why this even happens. “No one is having an experience of the objective reality that really exists; each creature perceives only what it has evolved to perceive."]]> 2019-11-20 18:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/414188568 coolprudvi11 https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/414219388 According to the article, sleep actually plays a mop up roll by helping clean up toxins that form inside the brain. Adds that long term sleep deprivation can lead to severe illness.  It also stated that Alzheimer’s disease is inheritable from an affected parent. Since this is true, I questioned if children with parents who had Alzheimers, had sleeping problems throughout the early years of their lives.  This article also stated that the lack of sleep can lead to certain disorders, and also that certain diseases cause a lack of sleep.  “Sleep disturbances are common among people with age-related neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease." ]]> 2019-11-20 18:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/414219388 coolprudvi11 https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/414219986 According to the article, when a human brain doesn’t receive enough rest for too often, the speed of its brain cells movement slows down dramatically.  The article also referred to a study done at UCLA which showed that as individuals got more and more deprived of sleep, it became more challenging to carry out certain tasks because their brain cells began to slow down.  This slow down of the brain cells in the individuals were being being seen visually by researchers through electrodes attached to their brains. This made me realize why biking to school became a lot harder for me after I spent the entire night before awake. "Sleep deprivation makes it difficult for brain cells to communicate effectively, which can lead to temporary mental lapses that affect memory and visual perception."]]> 2019-11-20 18:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/414219986 coolprudvi11 https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/414221056 The reader is informed that just one sleepless night can lead to the creation of a protein implicated in Alzheimer’s in your brain.  The brain uses sleep to get rid of waste which are clumps of misfolded protein, and a lack of sleep turns them toxic. Alzheimer’s disease is associated with the accumulation of such proteins in the human brain. This made me question how the brain actually gets the waste out of the body. The article also stated that there was a study done that showed that sleep deprivation altered connections between the pre-frontal cortex and the part of the brain that deals with emotions.  "Sleep deprived individuals become hypersensitive to rewarding stimuli, emotional responses are heightened, and start acting irrationally." ]]> 2019-11-20 18:43:49 UTC https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/414221056 coolprudvi11 https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/414221482 The source states that the effects of sleep deprivation include worsening long term memory, decision making and the ability to learn. Continues by saying that sleep deprivation can lead to permanent brain damage which can lead to serious alterations in the daily choices we make. A lack of sleep can also cause us to feel more confident and less cautious than normal while feeling more anxious, restless, irritable, less satisfied. Feeling confident while being sleep deprived was very true for me after nights I spent awake all night doing school work.  Individuals also lose control over their emotions due to sleep deprivation.  So it can be concluded that sleep deprivation can lead to very serious negative effects for an individual in the long term. "Sleep deprivation can over-stimulate parts of the brain and even lead to permanent brain damage."]]> 2019-11-20 18:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/414221482 coolprudvi11 https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/416505384 According to the article, sleep deprivation can cause an individual to literally lose the ability and/or willingness to go through with a certain task, a task that they would be able to do on a regular night of rest.  The article also states that as a result of this, the memory of the individual is being strained which causes the ability to remember or memorize decreased significantly.  This was true for me when I pulled an all nighter and the next day it was very hard to memorize a couple of formulas in calculus. It continued by stating that sleep deprivation even caused interruptions with in the brain and it's functions while the individual was trying to perform daily, routine tasks.  "If management of proactive interference is the cause, then the density of interruptions or other memory events in time may be more important than the length of time itself."]]> 2019-11-26 04:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/416505384 coolprudvi11 https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/417011417 The academic journal article says that memory is divided into three different parts. There is acquisition, where the brain acquires new information.  Consolidation, when the brain makes this information a stable memory.  Then there's recall, when it's able to refer back to this memory. The first and third ones happen while an individual is awake, while the third happens when they are asleep.  The article also says that slow-wave-sleep, which is deep sleep, can play a huge role in the processing and consolidating of memories and learning.  Now I understand why people tend to do better on tests if they get a good night sleep rather than staying up all night studying.  "Consolidation takes place during sleep through the strengthening of the neural connections that form our memories."]]> 2019-11-27 06:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/417011417 coolprudvi11 https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/422521860 Essay investigates the hypothesis that sleep deprivation during the ages of  18 - 25  can cause many effects which can be very costly for the brain in the long term and short term.  Through research, finds that sleep deprivation can cause memory loss in the long term, but worsen the ability to memorize in the short term.  The ability to focus and learn decreases and it also stated that when deprived of sleep, toxic waste that is common in Alzheimer’s patients, clumps together in the brain.  Raises an interesting question by asking whether different sleep patterns of the different cultures around the world had an effect on the percentage of sleep deprived individuals and the development of brain dysfunctions. "Sleep deprivation makes it difficult for brain cells to communicate effectively, which can lead to temporary mental lapses that affect memory and visual perception."]]> 2019-12-11 01:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/422521860 coolprudvi11 https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/422573742 Article discusses the importance of sleep and the effects a clock controlled world has on peoples sleep habits.  States that sleep deprivation can lead to twitching and muscular discomfort.  Continues by saying that an average person would need eight to ten hours of sleep a night and that most Americans believe they can manage on much less. Adds interesting information by saying that an individual can not make up for the lost sleep by just resting.  And when doing tasks that don't require much effort such as reading and you feel sleepy, this means you are sleep deprived. I realize that this can actually be a good technique to use to test whether I am getting enough sleep for my body. "Although most people tend to minimize the effects of insufficient sleep as simply feeling a bit tired, studies of sleep-deprived people have shown that they are less efficient and more irritable." ]]> 2019-12-11 06:36:30 UTC https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/422573742 coolprudvi11 https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/422577453 Source states the very harmful physical and mental effects that sleep deprivation can have on individuals. Adenosine and Melatonin are two key chemicals that send us into sleep and allow our body and brain to relax. Continues by saying that a large group of Americans from every age group are regularly sleep deprived.  Also explains that sleep deprivation causes toxic waste to build up in the brain which can lead to many terrible effects.  The glymphatic system gets rid of this waste and is active during sleep.  Since Melatonin and Adenosine send us to sleep, I wonder if caffeine kills these chemicals to wake us up. "Losing shut eye can result in hormonal imbalance, problems with memory and illness."]]> 2019-12-11 07:05:25 UTC https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/422577453 coolprudvi11 https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/422582220 States that the hippocampus is a major part of the brain that controls the cognitive processes and something we use every second.  A loss of sleep can  negatively impact this particular region of the brain because neurons that act as communication between the hippocampus and the rest of the body disappear when an individual is sleep deprived.  Continues by adding that while deprived of sleep, neural connections in the brain are being destroyed which is causing the size of the hippocampus to decrease. I question why the hippocampus shrinks while the neurons are being destroyed.  "After the analyzing the results, we saw a dramatic thirty percent spine loss after sleep deprivation in the hippocampus."]]> 2019-12-11 07:28:25 UTC https://padlet.com/coolprudvi11/Essay4/wish/422582220