Cognitive ability

What Happens If You Only Sleep for 3 Hours a Night for a Week?

A week of sleep deprivation of merely three hours each night can have detrimental effects on one's health, including an increased risk of heart disease, impaired brain function, weakened immunity, an increased risk of diabetes, impaired cognitive function, weight gain, and mood disorders including despair and anxiety.

Sep 12, 2024, 13:04 PM IST

Being socially active linked to lower dementia risk

For the analysis, the research team focused on the relationships between social contact at age 50, 60 and 70, and subsequent incidence of dementia, and whether social contact was linked to cognitive decline, after accounting for other factors such as education, employment, marital status and socioeconomic status.

Aug 06, 2019, 15:04 PM IST