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"Sleep in the name of science! Women need more Zzz&amp;#x2019;s than men because their brains are more complex, a new study from England&amp;#x2019;s Loughborough University reveals.&amp;#x201C;For women, poor sleep is strongly associated with high levels of psychological distress and greater feelings of hostility, depression and anger,&amp;#x201D; professor Jim Horne, director of the university&amp;#x2019;s Speech Research Center, told Metro UK. &amp;#x201C;In contrast, these feelings were not associated with the same degree of sleep disruption in men.&amp;#x201D;According to Horne, the reason why women are more heavily impacted by a lack of sleep is because their brains are called upon to perform more complicated tasks on a daily basis.&amp;#x201C;Women&amp;#x2019;s brains are wired differently from men&amp;#x2019;s and are more complex, so their sleep need will be slightly greater,&amp;#x201D; he said. &amp;#x201C;The more of your brain you use during the day, the more of it that needs to recover and, consequently, the more sleep you need.&amp;#x201D;Horne added that women tend to multitask more often, which also involves more stressors on the brain.Though there are men who perform complex jobs that involve &amp;#x201C;a lot of decision making and lateral thinking,&amp;#x201D; Horne said, the amount of sleep they need is &amp;#x201C;probably still not as much as a woman.&amp;#x201D;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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