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If it turns out that a large amount of sleep deprivation causes brain damage in humans a lot of people are going to freak out (and probably do even more damage
by Uptrenda 4y ago
If it turns out that a large amount of sleep deprivation causes brain damage in humans a lot of people are going to freak out (and probably do even more damage from worrying.) Hopefully our brains are more resilient than mouse and puppy brains (yikes...)
- civilized 4y agoTo be honest I already feel brain damaged from kid-related sleep disruption.
- bredren 4y agoIf this were as dangerous as intoned, I would expect there would already be observable trends in the acuity of aged parents and those who did not raise children.
- glitchcrab 4y agoI'm sitting here reading this at 3am after having fed my 2 month old son and this was the same thought which crossed my mind. Given how affected my sleep has been (and my experience isn't anything out of the ordinary really), I would absolutely expect to see some pretty clear trends showing up.
- civilized 4y agoI wonder if the kids are brain damaged from not sleeping too. Just, brain damage all around. Brain damage...
- the_af 4y agoJust 2 months old? The good news is that you can still be sleep deprived three years later! Source: me.
- bredren 4y agoJust celebrated our first's one year birthday. Hang in there, it's awesome.
- gruez 4y agoThat's going to be confounded because people who have kids are probably self selected to be doing well financially, which is correlated with mental accuity.
- WebbWeaver 4y agoWell consider that likely