The effect on elderly and mid age adults due to lack of sleep
Hippocampus stores information for a short time but in order to sustain the Learnings, a short afternoon nap enables the transition to the cortex, for saving the information.
Myth busted : Elderly don’t need more sleep.
They need more sleep, it’s because the cortex deteriorates over time, the deep NREM sleep gets lesser in duration than the REM.
— Aug 30, 2023 12:27AM
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