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Study: Lack of sleep leads to brain damage

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By ABC13
Thursday, March 20, 2014

In a just released study, researchers say long term sleep deprivation causes brain damage even after days of recovery sleep.

Scientists put mice on a sleep schedule similar to shift work and found they lost 25 percent of the nerve cells associated with alertness and cognitive function.

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