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"Kinda out-there headline, I know, but new research has just come out linking sleep deprivation with making risky decisions--and they used gambling experiments to do it. For a study in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers asked participants to perform a series of gambling tasks--once after at 8 a.m., after a full night&amp;#x27;s sleep, and again a week later at 6 a.m., after a night of sleep deprivation. When they were sleep-deprived, people tended to make choices that emphasized monetary gain, and were less likely to make choices that reduced loss. In other words, being sleep deprived might lead you to be too optimistic about the outcome of your decisions. From Science Daily: &amp;quot;The scientists showed, using a functional MRI, that a night of sleep deprivation leads to increased brain activity in brain regions that assess positive outcomes, while at the same time this deprivation leads to decreased activation in the brain areas that process negative outcomes.&amp;quot; Whoa! What kinds of decisions do you find yourself making when you&amp;#x27;re sleepy? Do you think you take more risks? How do you try to get focused? More on healthy snoozing: * More Couples Sleeping In Separate Beds * What Do You Wear To Bed? * Do You Like A Warm Or Cold Bedroom? More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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