{"id":24774,"date":"2019-01-31T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/?p=24774"},"modified":"2019-02-04T22:53:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T04:53:57","slug":"people-feel-more-pain-after-a-night-of-poor-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/people-feel-more-pain-after-a-night-of-poor-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"People feel more pain after a night of poor sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-24800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/porr-night-sleep-pain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/porr-night-sleep-pain.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/porr-night-sleep-pain-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/porr-night-sleep-pain-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>A team of researchers led by Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of neuroscience and psychology and author of the book <em>Why We Sleep<\/em>, found that <strong>brain activity grows in pain-sensing regions while activity in areas that modulate how we perceive pain decreases, after one night of poor sleep<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <em>Journal of Neuroscience, <\/em>shows that <strong>human brain processes pain depending on whether the person is sleep deprived<\/strong>. The subjects, healthy young adults, were kept awake in the laboratory throughout one night. The following day, the researchers <strong>observed during a pain sensitivity task reduced activity in regions of the striatum and insula cortex and reduced activity in regions of the striatum and insula cortex<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, participants of an online survey, recruited via the crowdsourcing marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk, reported <strong>increased pain during the day after reporting poor sleep the night before<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers conclude that their results suggest that <strong>improving sleep quality could be effective to manage pain, particularly in hospitals<\/strong>. The link between quality of sleep and pain is important because the first one is decreasing and the later increasing in populations around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><em>Sience Daily<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of neuroscience and psychology and author of the book Why We Sleep, found that brain activity grows in pain-sensing regions while activity in areas that modulate how we perceive pain decreases, after one night of poor sleep. The study, published in Journal of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-24774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en-la-salud","tag-casalud","cat-3-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24774"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24802,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24774\/revisions\/24802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}