For the nine months I nursed my twins, I lived in an almost constant
state of sleep-deprivation. And I tried everything I could think of:
caffeine, showers, the old-fashioned, self-administered series of slaps
to the cheek. I could have used the help of researchers at the Wake
Forest University School of Medicine, who recently announced they
reversed the effects of sleep deprivation in monkeys with a chemical
naturally occurring in our own brains.
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