Fighting Sleep: Researchers Reverse Cognitive Impairment Caused By Sleep Deprivation

ScienceDaily, Oct. 27, 2009

A University of Pennsylvania research team has found a molecular pathway in the brain that is the cause of cognitive impairment due to sleep deprivation.

The impairment may however be reversible by reducing the concentration of a specific enzyme that builds up in the hippocampus of the brain, they found.