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Study Finds That Women Need More Sleep Than Men



Okay, not exactly but what research has been able to prove is that women have more complex brain activity than men.

The study came from England's Loughborough University that revealed women require higher amounts of brain activity and use more areas of the brain than men do. This also mean that women are multi-taskers and overall, women need more sleep.

John Horne, a sleep expert and reseacher mentioned that "one of the major functions of sleep is to allow the brain to recover and repair itself. The more of your brain you use during the day, the more of it that needs to recover and, consequently, the more sleep you need."

Study also found that women may need about 20 minutes more sleep than men per night. While a man has a mentally demanding job which requires lots of lateral thinking tasks and decision making, will need more sleep than the average male, though still not as much as a woman.

According to Dr. Apostolos Georgopoulos, the director of the Brain Science Centre at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centre:

"Women's brains are definitely different from men's brains. What we have found is that women, in many different tasks, process information about five times faster than men, and use much less of their brain to do identical cognitive performance."

May seem like a good news but the speed and efficiency of the female brain comes at a cost. According to scientists, the female brain is more vulnerable to damage than the male brain. A damaged male brain can recover way faster and more completely, making the daily recovery and repair process (aka sleep) very important.