Neuroscience

This is what happens in your brain when you don't sleep for two days

Delegates rest during a break of the plenary session at the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP 20 in Lima December 13, 2014. U.N. talks on slowing climate change were threatened with collapse on Saturday after China clashed with the United States and led emerging nations to reject a compromise outline of an agreement

Various brain regions appear to be differently affected by sleep loss and the circadian rhythm. Image: © Enrique Castro-Mendivil

Derk-Jan Dijk
Professor of Sleep and Physiology and Director of Surrey Sleep Research Centre, University of Surrey
Pierre Maquet
Research Director, Cyclotron Research, Université de Liège
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