(2004-01-22) Sleep And Thinking

Sleep Deprivation affects memory, Creativity, Problem Solving, etc. Scientists at the University of Luebeck in Germany found that volunteers taking a simple math test were three times more likely than sleep-deprived participants to figure out a hidden rule for converting the numbers into the right answer if they had eight hours of sleep. The results appear in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. The key is not Having Kids.