Insomnia: Sleep loss causes brain vulnerability to toxic elements

June 10, 2014

Science Daily/Investigación y Desarrollo

In search of the answer to why do we sleep, researcher have now revealed that chronic sleep loss can cause certain neurotoxic molecules, which normally circulate in the blood, to be transported to the central nervous system and interfere with the function of neurons. The longer the insomnia, the more junctions of cerebral blood vessels begin to degrade.

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