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Zinong Yang
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Comp Neuro PhD Candidate🧠 @ Lewis Lab https://www.lewisneurolab.org/
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Zinong Yang @ziy027.bsky.social · 5d
What really happens in your brain when you don’t sleep enough?

Our new study in Nature Neuroscience reveals that when you’re sleep-deprived and attention drops, your brain starts to look like asleep: with large waves of CSF rushing through the brain, similar to what happens during sleep.
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The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT @picowerinstitute.bsky.social · 6d
New research shows attention lapses due to sleep deprivation coincide with a flushing of fluid from the brain — a process that normally occurs during sleep. news.mit.edu/2025/your-br...
This is your brain without sleep
An MIT study reveals what happens in the brain as lapses of attention occur following sleep deprivation. During these lapses, a wave of cerebrospinal fluid flows out of the brain — a process that typi...
news.mit.edu
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Zinong Yang @ziy027.bsky.social · 5d
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Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
MIT News: news.mit.edu/2025/your-br...
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Zinong Yang @ziy027.bsky.social · 5d
So grateful for this amazing team: Laura Lewis @lauradata.bsky.social , Stephanie Williams @stephaniedwill.bsky.social , Ewa Beldzik @ewa-beldzik.bsky.social , Stephanie Anakwe, Emilia Schimmelpfennig, and thrilled that MIT News covered our work!
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Zinong Yang @ziy027.bsky.social · 5d
What really happens in your brain when you don’t sleep enough?

Our new study in Nature Neuroscience reveals that when you’re sleep-deprived and attention drops, your brain starts to look like asleep: with large waves of CSF rushing through the brain, similar to what happens during sleep.
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Zinong Yang @ziy027.bsky.social · 5d
Thank you!!
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Zinong Yang @ziy027.bsky.social · Nov 19
🎉Excited to share our latest work with @stephaniedwill.bsky.social @ewa-beldzik.bsky.social @lauradata.bsky.social + others
🥱Why does sleep deprivation have negative effects on behavior?
We demonstrate that attentional failures caused by SD are coupled to large-scale brain fluid transport.
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