Women need more sleep because the brain works harder

loughborough - Turn around just one more time, because research from British Loughborough University has shown that women need more sleep than men because their brains work harder.

Women have more brain activity and use a larger part of their brain than men. Because of the higher activity, the brain needs longer to rest and recover well. In practice, this means that women generally need about twenty minutes more sleep per night.

The research that dates from 2016 was carried out among 949 young people. We looked at the differences in brain development. Men are better developed in areas such as motor skills and spatial insight, but women excel when it comes to memory and social cognitive skills.

In women, the connections between the different brain regions are better developed, allowing them to communicate faster with each other. As a result, women are generally better at multitasking.

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