Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/V0dPokY1Bxs If you get a rotten night’s sleep, your brain will be primed for a painful day after.  Neuroscientists from UC-Berkeley now prove this fact with two studies: one in the laboratory with sophisticated studies of the next day’s brain electrical activity and the other via crowdsourcing with subjects reporting their feelings after a restless night. In the first study, the young adults kept awake in the lab showed greater than normal brainwave activity in the somatosensory pain-sensing part of the brain while experiencing a painful stimulus.  In the second experiment, the online crowdsource participants rated their pain significantly greater after each had a terrible night’s sleep. Knowing this fact can help you, a work-obsessed student or a young professional swamped with projects, prepare for the day after an all-nighter.  To those of us in the healthcare professions, it’s also a call to keep hospital rooms quiet and to minimize patient’ sleep interruptions.  After all, a goo