Midday Nap Good for Brain
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Spend a little time resting during the day for a little sleep and you will get your brain abilities better. The study by University of California, showed that naps during the day can increase overall brain work.

A study conducted in 39 healthy people who slept for an hour and a half during the middle of the day proved the overall increase in their brains functions. Since the morning, the test participants have been given hard learning for an exam. After the day some participants told to little sleep and the others stay awake. When they woke up, all of the participants in order to do the same task and the results have shown it is better for the participants who did a midday nap than those who did not.

According to the researchers, the naps help a person to process short-term memories into long-term ones, clearing the temporary storage portion of the brain so that new information can take its place. A sleep phase somewhere between deep sleep and dreaming sleep, temporary memories move from the hippocampus to the pre-frontal cortex.

In addition good for the brain, a good sleeps will also be good for the overall function of the organs in our body. Nevertheless we must be wise and proportionate in regulating our sleep time and duration. Because of long sleep duration is also not good, especially when the working day. Just take advantage of our little time lunch breaks better to be able recover our stamina. Midday nap may be better even only for 1 hour.

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