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It's gotta be sleep, right?

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  > “We’re still far from the point where we can say that working hard mentally causes a toxic buildup of glutamate in the brain,” says the study’s first author, Antonius Weihler, a computational psychiatrist at the GHU Paris Psychiatry and Neurosciences. But if it does, it underscores the well-known restorative powers of sleep, which “cleanses” the brain by flushing out metabolic waste. https://www.science.org/content/article/mentally-exhausted-study-blames-buildup-key-chemical-brain https://www.science.org/content/article/mentally-exhausted-s...