{"id":214981,"date":"2025-05-29T05:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/how-coffee-affects-a-sleeping-brain"},"modified":"2025-05-29T05:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T10:17:54","slug":"how-coffee-affects-a-sleeping-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/how-coffee-affects-a-sleeping-brain","title":{"rendered":"How coffee affects a sleeping brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-coffee-affects-a-sleeping-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caffeine is not only found in coffee, but also in tea, chocolate, energy drinks and many soft drinks, making it one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42003-025-08090-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Communications Biology<\/i>, a team of researchers from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al shed new light on how caffeine can modify sleep and influence the brain\u2019s recovery\u2014both physical and cognitive\u2014overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The research was led by Philipp Th\u00f6lke, a research trainee at UdeM\u2019s Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Laboratory (CoCo Lab), and co-led by the lab\u2019s director, Karim Jerbi, a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/psychology+professor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">psychology professor<\/a> and researcher at Mila\u2013Quebec AI Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caffeine is not only found in coffee, but also in tea, chocolate, energy drinks and many soft drinks, making it one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world. In a study published in Communications Biology, a team of researchers from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al shed new light on how caffeine can modify sleep [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214981","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}