{"id":143943,"date":"2022-08-14T19:03:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/bad-things-happen-after-dark"},"modified":"2022-08-14T19:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:03:20","slug":"bad-things-happen-after-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/bad-things-happen-after-dark","title":{"rendered":"Bad Things Happen After Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bad-things-happen-after-dark.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might identify with the Mind After Midnight hypothesis if you\u2019ve ever stayed up late angrily commenting on Twitter posts, finishing another bottle of wine, eating a whole pint of ice cream out of the container, or just feeling miserable.<\/p>\n<p>The hypothesis suggests that when humans are awake during the biological circadian night\u2014after midnight for most people\u2014there are neurophysiological changes in the brain that alter the way we interact with the world, especially actions related to impulse control, reward processing, and information processing. The hypothesis was detailed in a recent paper published in the journal <em>Frontiers in Network Psychology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere are millions of people who are awake in the middle of the night, and there\u2019s fairly good evidence that their brain is not functioning as well as it does during the day.\u201d \u2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might identify with the Mind After Midnight hypothesis if you\u2019ve ever stayed up late angrily commenting on Twitter posts, finishing another bottle of wine, eating a whole pint of ice cream out of the container, or just feeling miserable. The hypothesis suggests that when humans are awake during the biological circadian night\u2014after midnight for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143943","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}