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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Shaheena Uddin

Scientists identify why we can’t concentrate after a bad night’s sleep

We’ve all been there - waking up on the wrong side of the bed after a poor night of sleep. What should have been alertness has instead been unwittingly replaced by brain fog and attention deficit, but why does this happen?

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have now uncovered exactly what occurs inside the tired brain during those lapses in judgment, in a new study published in the Nature Neuroscience journal.

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