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Brain Scans Reveal Why It Takes So Long to Wake Up in the Morning
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 582" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.inverse.com/article/50128-how-long-does-it-take-to-wake-up-the-brain" target="_blank"><strong>Brain Scans Reveal Why It Takes So Long to Wake Up in the Morning - Inverse</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>"Sleep inertia" is real, and caffeine won't help.</em></p><p></p><p>very morning, people sleepily drag themselves out of bed, wandering through a <a href="https://www.inverse.com/article/43755-your-brain-on-no-sleep" target="_blank">brain fog</a> that seems to take forever to dissipate. Early risers will deny it exists, but evidence in a new paper in the journal <em>NeuroImage</em> suggests otherwise. The University of California, Berkeley team behind the study also reveal the <a href="https://www.inverse.com/article/46541-caffeine-and-nicotine-are-shown-to-increase-anxiety" target="_blank">one way to get through it</a>.</p><p></p><p>The term for that cognitive fog is “sleep inertia,” but before the current study we’ve never been quite sure why people experience it, says <a href="https://raphaelvallat.github.io" target="_blank">Raphael Vallat, Ph.D.</a>, the lead study author and post-doctoral fellow at The University of California, Berkeley. In the <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811918308188" target="_blank">paper</a>, he proposes a reason why it exists: Even when the body is awake and moving in the morning, its brain is asleep in some capacity for some time after.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 582, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.inverse.com/article/50128-how-long-does-it-take-to-wake-up-the-brain'][B]Brain Scans Reveal Why It Takes So Long to Wake Up in the Morning - Inverse[/B][/URL] [I]"Sleep inertia" is real, and caffeine won't help.[/I] very morning, people sleepily drag themselves out of bed, wandering through a [URL='https://www.inverse.com/article/43755-your-brain-on-no-sleep']brain fog[/URL] that seems to take forever to dissipate. Early risers will deny it exists, but evidence in a new paper in the journal [I]NeuroImage[/I] suggests otherwise. The University of California, Berkeley team behind the study also reveal the [URL='https://www.inverse.com/article/46541-caffeine-and-nicotine-are-shown-to-increase-anxiety']one way to get through it[/URL]. The term for that cognitive fog is “sleep inertia,” but before the current study we’ve never been quite sure why people experience it, says [URL='https://raphaelvallat.github.io']Raphael Vallat, Ph.D.[/URL], the lead study author and post-doctoral fellow at The University of California, Berkeley. In the [URL='https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811918308188']paper[/URL], he proposes a reason why it exists: Even when the body is awake and moving in the morning, its brain is asleep in some capacity for some time after. [/QUOTE]
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