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Chronic sleep deprivation

The negative effects of consistently getting less sleep than needed

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Jan 9, 2026

Where there any articles made about cognitive distortions caused by sleep deprivation? I mean failures in predictive processing, cognitive stuff, making more bias itd

Yes — there is a growing body of empirical literature showing that sleep deprivation produces measurable distortions in perception, attention, memory and decision-making, and several studies frame tho...

Jan 8, 2026

What is the current state of evidence linking sleep interventions to Alzheimer’s prevention and treatment?

Sleep disruption is increasingly implicated as a potentially modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), with observational and mechanistic studies linking poor sleep, reduced slow‑wave and R...