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Poor Sleep Can Be A Pain The Next Day
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/V0dPokY1Bxs
If you get a rotten night’s sleep, your brain will be primed for a painful day after. Neuroscientists from UC-Berkeley now prove this fact with two studies: one in the laboratory with sophisticated studies of the next day’s brain electrical activity and the other via crowdsourcing with subjects reporting their feelings after a restless night.
In the first study, the young adults kept awake in the lab showed greater than normal brainwave activity in the somatosensory pain-sensing part of the brain while experiencing a painful stimulus. In the second experiment, the online crowdsource participants rated their pain significantly greater after each had a terrible night’s sleep.
Knowing this fact can help you, a work-obsessed student or a young professional swamped with projects, prepare for the day after an all-nighter. To those of us in the healthcare professions, it’s also a call to keep hospital rooms quiet and to minimize patient’ sleep interruptions. After all, a good night’s sleep for a patient will mean fewer pain medications the next day.
#sleep #pain #hospitalnoise #painmedication #healthnews #healthtips
Adam J. Krause, Aric A. Prather, Tor D. Wager, Martin A. Lindquist, Matthew P. Walker. The pain of sleep loss: A brain characterization in humans. The Journal of Neuroscience, 2019; 2408-18 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2408-18.2018
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By Howard G. Smith MD, AMVidcast: https://youtu.be/V0dPokY1Bxs
If you get a rotten night’s sleep, your brain will be primed for a painful day after. Neuroscientists from UC-Berkeley now prove this fact with two studies: one in the laboratory with sophisticated studies of the next day’s brain electrical activity and the other via crowdsourcing with subjects reporting their feelings after a restless night.
In the first study, the young adults kept awake in the lab showed greater than normal brainwave activity in the somatosensory pain-sensing part of the brain while experiencing a painful stimulus. In the second experiment, the online crowdsource participants rated their pain significantly greater after each had a terrible night’s sleep.
Knowing this fact can help you, a work-obsessed student or a young professional swamped with projects, prepare for the day after an all-nighter. To those of us in the healthcare professions, it’s also a call to keep hospital rooms quiet and to minimize patient’ sleep interruptions. After all, a good night’s sleep for a patient will mean fewer pain medications the next day.
#sleep #pain #hospitalnoise #painmedication #healthnews #healthtips
Adam J. Krause, Aric A. Prather, Tor D. Wager, Martin A. Lindquist, Matthew P. Walker. The pain of sleep loss: A brain characterization in humans. The Journal of Neuroscience, 2019; 2408-18 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2408-18.2018