Sleep Deprivation's Negative Affect on Learning
by Jason Flora
1. Surprisingly, stress hormones do not cause sleep deprivation.
2. When sleep deprivation occurs and the hippocampus cannot be relied on to guide individuals to the correct location then the striatum is sometimes used to solve problems instead of relying on memory.
3. Sleep deprivation causes issues with post the consolidation of memories
4. Interestingly, rapid eye movement sleep deprivation was shown to have the worst affect on memory, while sleep deprivation during other periods of the sleep cycle seemed to have a minor effect on memory retention.
5. Chronic sleep deprivation causes the hippocampus to decrease in size which has been shown to cause poor cognitive function.
