Your Goldilocks Brain and Sleep

How’s your sleeping? Sleep is one of those things we often pay little attention to unless you have a sleep disorder or have difficulty getting enough.

We’ve heard it before – how we are all horribly sleep deprived and how this is impacting our health, mood, our memory and thinking skills. And yes, while it’s true many of us struggle to get enough shut-eye there are others who have no such issue. In fact, they’re happily tucked up under their doona for far longer, maybe nine or ten hours.

Does this matter?

Is sleeping longer as bad for us as not sleeping enough?

This is what a group of neuroscientists from the University of Western Ontario Brain and Mind Institute set out to discover. Their findings from the world’s largest sleep study were recently published in Sleep. Over 10,000 people from around the world took part, completing an in-depth questionnaire and undertaking a battery of 12 cognitive tests supplied by Cambridge Brain Sciences (CBS) to examine selective attention, reasoning, verbal short-term memory, spatial working memory, planning, visuospatial working memory, cognitive flexibility and various aspects of inattention.

The questionnaire asked questions about people’s sleeping habits, what medication they were taking, their age, where they lived and what level of education they had received.

Can you guess what they discovered? Continue reading this article here at drjennybrockis.com to take a look at the 5 big takeaways…