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Is it known exactly why the brain needs sleep? What's dropping low / going high when we experience mental fatigue? I can see why low glucose could result in mental fatigue, are other reasons known?

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  • $\begingroup$ Because the brain cell highly sensitive to glucose when its level decrease the we feel fatigue $\endgroup$
    – user17552
    Aug 28, 2015 at 14:54

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This is not the biochemistry, but the brain regions involved are described in this article about an fMRI study: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121210101630.htm

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From what I can tell, mental fatigue is attributed to low oxygenation levels. Here's a study that examines the effect of creatine in preventing mental fatigue: http://jtoomim.org/brain-training/watanabe2001-creatine-reduces-mentalfatigue.pdf

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  • $\begingroup$ I know that these pieces of information don't directly answer your question, but they're related (and the best I could find). $\endgroup$
    – blep
    Feb 10, 2013 at 5:46

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