Men Drained In Bed
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Scientists in Austria say sharing a bed with someone temporarily reduces men's
brain power.
When men spend the night with someone their sleep is disturbed,
whether they make love or not, and this impairs their mental ability the next
day.
According to the New Scientist study, women who share a bed fare
better because they sleep more deeply.
Professor Gerhard Kloesch and
colleagues at the University of Vienna studied eight unmarried, childless
couples in their 20s.
Each couple was asked to spend 10 nights sleeping
together and 10 apart while the scientists assessed their rest patterns with
questionnaires and wrist activity monitors.
The next day the couples
were asked to perform simple cognitive tests and had their stress hormone levels
checked.
Although the men reported they had slept better with a partner,
they fared worse in the tests, with their results suggesting they actually had
more disturbed sleep.
But women apparently managed to sleep more deeply
when they did eventually drop off, since they claimed to be more refreshed than
their sleep time suggested.
Dr Neil Stanley, a sleep expert at the
University of Surrey, said: "Historically, we have never been meant to sleep in
the same bed as each other. It is a bizarre thing to do.
"Sharing the
bed space with someone who is making noises and who you have to fight with for
the duvet is not sensible."
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