How We Sleep
Exploring Sleep Among Common Animal Models
9 min readNov 25, 2022
While its exact function and role remains unknown, the importance of restful sleep is incontestable. Lack of sleep leads to impaired cognitive function, an increased drive to sleep, and can have long-lasting impacts on health. It has been implicated in a variety of roles including waste clearance, metabolic health, brain recovery, and macromolecule synthesis.