{"id":127869,"date":"2021-09-19T23:23:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T06:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/new-neuroscience-research-suggests-the-cerebral-cortex-acts-as-the-brains-hourglass"},"modified":"2021-09-19T23:23:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T06:23:28","slug":"new-neuroscience-research-suggests-the-cerebral-cortex-acts-as-the-brains-hourglass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/new-neuroscience-research-suggests-the-cerebral-cortex-acts-as-the-brains-hourglass","title":{"rendered":"New neuroscience research suggests the cerebral cortex acts as the brain\u2019s hourglass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-neuroscience-research-suggests-the-cerebral-cortex-acts-as-the-brains-hourglass.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one can stay awake forever. While we\u2019re awake, our need for sleep gradually increases. If we deprive ourselves of sleep, our brain functions \u2013 such as attention or judgement \u2013 are impaired, and sleep becomes irresistible. No matter whether we are on a couch or at work \u2013 if we ignore our need for sleep, we ultimately crash.<\/p>\n<p>Although sleep is vital, until now it hasn\u2019t been known which structure of the brain tells us when we are tired. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-021-00894-6\">our recent study<\/a> has shown in laboratory mice that the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for the most complex brain functions \u2013 including perception, language, thought and episodic memory \u2013 helps us track our need for sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one can stay awake forever. While we\u2019re awake, our need for sleep gradually increases. If we deprive ourselves of sleep, our brain functions \u2013 such as attention or judgement \u2013 are impaired, and sleep becomes irresistible. No matter whether we are on a couch or at work \u2013 if we ignore our need for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}