Because let me tell you,
my brain during night time is super active.
Not exact matches
Babies need frequent
night feeding due to the rapid pace of neurological development that occurs especially
during those sleepy,
night -
time hours when calories and energy are all focused on the
brain.
Sleep disorders and a lack of sleep increase the presence of cortisol in the system which can arouse the
brain hundreds of
times during one
night of sleep.
While these
brain rhythms, occurring hundreds of
times a
night, move in perfect lockstep in young adults, findings published in the journal Neuron show that, in old age, slow waves
during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep fail to make timely contact with speedy electrical bursts known as «spindles.»
Sleep experts confirmed that «exposure to daylight soon after waking (
during a run, bike ride or even a drive to the gym) has the effect of putting a
time stamp on your
brain: It reminds it when you woke up and when you need to power down at
night.»
These school schedules also do not match up with the established science that suggests that teenagers often stay up late due to hormonal changes — such as melatonin increases that occur in the
brain during one's teenage years — and so while teenagers need nine hours of sleep per
night, they typically get only around seven hours and have a harder
time waking up.