To sleep... perchance to learn

Researchers may have found the reason why children who go to bed too late often fare badly at school: lack of sleep appears to disrupt functioning of the hippocampus, an area of the brain that formulates new memories. Reporting Sunday in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School investigators recruited 28 volunteers, who were either randomly deprived of sleep for two days and a night before carrying out a test, or who were allowed to sleep normally. ... Continue Reading