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Poe: Sleep deprivation during critical development windows permanently impairs brain growth
“Sleep is really important also for a lot of developmental steps that have critical time windows, and if you lose that sleep in that time window, you lose the opportunity to fully develop that part of the brain.”
Poe: Poor sleep post-vaccination reduces immunization efficacy by at least 50%
“That immunization will be at least 50% less effective than it would otherwise be and you can't make up for that by just getting more sleep the next night.”
Dr. Poe: Sleep is not necessarily a whole-brain phenomenon
“We've recently discovered in the last five, six years that sleep isn't necessarily a whole brain at the same time phenomenon. That in fact, some of our brain can be asleep while other parts of our brain can be awake.”
Poe: Criminal Defendants Have Been Acquitted Due to Sleepwalking Evidence
“There have been cases, legal cases, where people have been acquitted out of a crime because it could be shown pretty clearly that they were asleep at the time.”
Dr. Poe: An extra hour of sleep makes teenagers less anxious and depressed
“Teenagers who are able to get an extra hour of sleep every night are usually able to better cope with the world around them, including their parents. So they're less emotionally labile, they're happier, less depressed, less anxious. Better able to cope with th…”
Dr. Poe: Big Pre-Bed Meals Increase Nightmares and Awakenings
“One says having a big meal makes people have more nightmares, more disturbing dreams that they remember, and that probably is because they're awakening out of sleep more often in order to have the consciousness of those disturbing dreams and nightmares.”
Poe: Well-rested people take 14 to 15 minutes on average to fall asleep
“Someone who's getting enough sleep at night, you know takes about, I think on average, 14, 15 minutes, something like that, to fall asleep.”
Dr. Poe: Fatal familial insomnia causes total sleeplessness and death within months
“For example, there's a biological condition called fatal familial insomnia, and that's where people develop a An inability to fall asleep, and unfortunately, it's fatal after a few months.”
Poe: Slow brain waves during sleep clear metabolic debris and misfolded proteins
“It's only been in the past 10 years or so We realized that there are actual, the slow waves that we didn't know what their function was when we fall asleep. Are actually sweeping through and cleaning our brains from the debris that builds up across wakefulness…”
Dr. Gina Poe: Regular bedtimes in older adults predict better cognitive outcomes
“There have been studies to show that the more volatile your sleep onset time The worse, the cognitive outcomes for older people. So it hasn't really been studied as much in younger people, but if you have a regular bedtime in older people, you're it's predicti…”
Dr. Gina Poe: Human circadian clocks can shift about one hour per day
“Jet lag is a problem because you need to reset that clock, and our clocks can phase shift by about an hour a day.”
Poe: Brain Compensates for Missed Sleep with More Efficient Slow Waves
“If you miss a night's sleep, or one night you just can't get to bed at the regular time, and the next more, the next night you will probably be sleepier earlier, and if you can go to sleep a little bit earlier, you will Catch up on that deep slow way of sleep …”
Poe: Well-slept hospital staff make fewer medical errors and needle-stick accidents
“And if the schedule of the hospital allows for physicians and nurses and staff to get good regular sleep, then the physicians and nurses Make fewer medical errors. And that, that includes errors in terms of misprescribing something for the patient, as well as …”
Poe: Caffeine Half-Life Varies Widely Based on Individual Enzymes
“So the half-life of caffeine, it's not a half-life of the caffeine molecule itself. It's a half-life of our ability, our enzymes ability to break it down, and that varies from person to person.”
Poe: Alcohol Metabolism Completion Triggers Nighttime Brain Arousal
“The completion of the metabolism of alcohol sends an arousing and alerting Message to your brain. So a lot of people, if they, they're drunk and they fall asleep, they will wake up at, you know, three, four in the morning and find it difficult to go back to sl…”