It can take more than a week to recover from memory and reaction speeds issues that develop after 10 days of poor quality sleep, according to a new study.
To discover whether it is possible to recover from sleep deprivation, and if so how long it takes, a team from Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland recruited 13 volunteers to suffer through ten nights of broken, poor quality sleep.
During those ten nights, and a subsequent week of quality, uninterrupted slumber, the volunteers answered questions, wore wrist sensors and had daily EEG tests.