Sleep well…… and the economy will take off!
AMSTERDAM (Holland). This is the result of a research on the cerebral mechanism during sleep, conducted by the Dutch neurologist Ysbrand Van der Werf, at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) in la Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.
They demonstrated that good sleep is beneficial not only to the individuals but also to the economy! This is because people who sleep well are more productive and perform better.
Sleeping nearby a motorway, a railway or an airport causes problems with remembering information and learning and organising new ones.
We already knew that a bad sleep made us very grumpy to say the least, but what Van der Werf demonstrated is that we will also have productivity problems.
Apparently (according to the professor’s study):
“Sleep before learning benefits memory encoding through unknown mechanisms. We found that even a mild sleep disruption that suppressed slow-wave activity and induced shallow sleep, but did not reduce total sleep time, was sufficient to affect subsequent successful encoding-related hippocampal activation and memory performance in healthy human subjects. Implicit learning was not affected. Our results suggest that the hippocampus is particularly sensitive to shallow, but intact, sleep.”
The hippocampus affects the way we remember old memories and store new ones.
Van der Werf discoveries question the current trends of sleeping in noisy cities and fewer and fewer hours.
As BreakTimers, we feel it’s part of our mission to encourage people to sleep more and better!
Professor Van der Werf provide us with a strong scientific argument that will help winning the argument for more rest: it’s good for the economy (your company and general) too! So in a period of crisis it should be our duty to make sure we sleep enough and well.
Van der Werf’s results are published in the internet magazine Nature Neuroscience. We propose Professor Van der Werf and his team as Great BreakTimers!
sleep well
Horace
I think I am contrinbuting to the end of the crisis than by oversleeping every day….