{"id":75119,"date":"2014-03-19T18:06:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T14:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=75119"},"modified":"2014-03-19T18:07:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T14:07:18","slug":"shift-workers-beware-sleep-loss-may-cause-brain-damage-new-research-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=75119","title":{"rendered":"Shift workers beware: Sleep loss may cause brain damage, new research says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sleep-loss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-75117\" alt=\"sleep-loss\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sleep-loss.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sleep-loss.jpg 850w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sleep-loss-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sleep-loss-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Are you a truck driver or shift worker planning to catch up on some sleep this weekend?<\/p>\n<p>Cramming in extra hours of shut-eye may not make up for those lost pulling all-nighters, new research indicates.<\/p>\n<p>The damage may already be done &#8212; brain damage, that is, said neuroscientist Sigrid Veasey from the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The widely held idea that you can pay back a sizeable &#8220;sleep debt&#8221; with long naps later on seems to be a myth, she said in a study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uphs.upenn.edu\/news\/News_Releases\/2014\/03\/veasey\/\" target=\"_blank\">published this week<\/a> in the Journal of Neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>Long-term sleep deprivation saps the brain of power even after days of recovery sleep, Veasey said. And that could be a sign of lasting brain injury.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery that long-term sleep loss can result in a loss of brain cells is a first, Veasey said.<\/p>\n<p>They hope their research will result in medicines that will help people working odd hours cope with the consequences of irregular sleep.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Are you a truck driver or shift worker planning to catch up on some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":75117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,224],"tags":[8332],"class_list":["post-75119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-sleep-loss","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}