By Rick Banas, Vice President of Strategic Marketing at BMA Management
While the reasons ‘¿why?’ are a mystery, researchers say that sleep is crucial for our memories.
An article published this past Sunday in Health Day, News for Healthier Living, notes that getting enough sleep helps us improve long-term memory, think more creatively, be more innovative, and preserve memories that are important to us.
The article features a lot of great insights from Dr. Robert Stickgold, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition at Beth Isrhttps://www.gardant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-19-1.jpgl Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and Dr. Jessica Payne, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, who has researched the effect of sleep on memory.
Click here to read the Health Day article.
To learn more about how much sleep you really do need, you can click here go to the National Sleep Foundation’s Web Site.
Looking at older adults, the Foundation says that on average the amount of sleep time needed increases slightly after age 65.
Other important factors to consider are that napping may decrease the amount of sleep needed at night; the lack of exercise may negatively impact the ability to fall asleep and to stay asleep; and medications may make a person drowsy and increase the desire to sleep.
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