Napping for just 5 minutes can change the trajectory of your day. Here’s how.
Napping for just 5 minutes can change the trajectory of your day. Here’s how.
- March 26, 2026
- Sara Mednick, cognitive sciences, shares expertise with HuffPost's "Am I Doing It Wrong?" podcast hosts Raj Punjabi-Johnson and Noah Michelson
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Catching a few z’s during the day can be really good for us. That’s what we … recently learned when we chatted with Sara Mednick, Ph.D., a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine …. “In my lab, what we study is all the cognitive benefits [of napping],” Mednick said. “There’s benefits to memory, creativity, emotional processing, executive function ... so everything that you think about that you like about sleep, you can also get from a nap.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.huffpost.com/entry/napping-benefits-midday-rest-creativity-health_l_69bffb03e4b0284f9be0cef8.
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