{"id":224201,"date":"2025-10-29T09:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/attention-lapses-due-to-sleep-deprivation-coincide-with-a-flushing-of-fluid-from-the-brain-research-reveals"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:19:06","slug":"attention-lapses-due-to-sleep-deprivation-coincide-with-a-flushing-of-fluid-from-the-brain-research-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/attention-lapses-due-to-sleep-deprivation-coincide-with-a-flushing-of-fluid-from-the-brain-research-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation coincide with a flushing of fluid from the brain, research reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/attention-lapses-due-to-sleep-deprivation-coincide-with-a-flushing-of-fluid-from-the-brain-research-reveals3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly everyone has experienced it: After a night of poor sleep, you don\u2019t feel as alert as you should. Your brain might seem foggy, and your mind drifts off when you should be paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>A new study from MIT reveals what happens inside the brain as these momentary failures of attention occur. The scientists found that during these lapses, a wave of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cerebrospinal+fluid\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cerebrospinal fluid<\/a> (CSF) flows out of the brain\u2014a process that typically occurs during sleep and helps to wash away waste products that have built up during the day. This flushing is believed to be necessary for maintaining a healthy, normally functioning brain.<\/p>\n<p>When a person is sleep-deprived, it appears that their body attempts to catch up on this cleansing process by initiating pulses of CSF flow. However, this comes at a cost of dramatically impaired attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly everyone has experienced it: After a night of poor sleep, you don\u2019t feel as alert as you should. Your brain might seem foggy, and your mind drifts off when you should be paying attention. A new study from MIT reveals what happens inside the brain as these momentary failures of attention occur. The scientists [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224201","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=224201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}