October 17, 2017
Ask neuroscientist Matthew Walker, author of the new book, Why We Sleep, about the downside of pulling an all-nighter, and he’ll rattle off a list of ill effects that range from memory loss and a compromised immune system to junk food cravings and wild mood swings.
There was that time, for instance, when two straitlaced football players stayed up all night in his campus lab for a memory experiment. By morning, the two were grinning maniacally with lipstick and mascara smeared across their faces. Their makeup had been slapped on by two similarly sleep-deprived female students.
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