To sleep, perchance to gain creative insight?

Stroke and Intraoperative Hypotension: To Sleep, Perchance to Stroke-Ay, There's the Rub.

To Sleep, Perchance to Enrich Learning? Rapid Responses

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To sleep, perchance to enrich learning?

There is evidence that sleep enhances memory and learning. Childhood is a critical period for neurodevelopment, and minor but persistent disruption of sleep may have long-term implications for cognitive performance. Sleep is critical for health and is undervalued both in our 24 h society and in paediatric clinical practice. Paediatricians need to understand the neurodevelopmental consequences o...

Sleep Does Not Promote Solving Classical Insight Problems and Magic Tricks

During creative problem solving, initial solution attempts often fail because of self-imposed constraints that prevent us from thinking out of the box. In order to solve a problem successfully, the problem representation has to be restructured by combining elements of available knowledge in novel and creative ways. It has been suggested that sleep supports the reorganization of memory represent...

To sleep, perchance...

Sleeping is easy for many of us; but for a surprisingly large minority, it is often rather more difficult. These unfortunates know from experience how debilitating a prolonged period of poor nights can be, affecting one’s general health and ability to function effectively. Indeed, the extreme of total sleep deprivation appears to be lethal, at least for rats, possibly due to weakening of the im...