In a 2025 @SciSignal Review, researchers discussed an emerging body of research on the metabolic effects of sleep loss, which disrupts the natural balance of energy within neurons. ⁠ ⁠ The authors highlighted how the loss of sleep forces neurons to shunt resources to cell survival pathways, at the expense of more long-term, energy-demanding processes such as cognition and memory formation.⁠ ⁠ Learn more on #WorldSleepDay: