Comparative effects of diazepam administration and chronic sleep deprivation on cognitive function and biochemical markers in rats
Ghasem Forutan, Yaghoob Farbood, Alireza Sarkaki, Seyed Esmaeil Khoshnam, Sadegh Moradi Vastegani, Zohreh Lamoochi · 2026
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Ghasem Forutan and colleagues weighed sleep loss and diazepam in 2026 for memory and learning in male Wistar rats. Sleep loss harms thinking and health, while benzodiazepines used for sleep problems bring side effects such as thinking harm. Eighteen rats were split into three groups for three weeks: a sham group given DMSO vehicle, a diazepam group, and a sleep loss group given sleep loss plus DMSO.
Thinking was tested by maze and learning tasks, with blood chemistry markers also read. Weighing drug effects against sleep loss effects helps split treatment harms from loss harms. The findings inform safer sleep care where thinking already suffers.
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| CREATOR | Ghasem Forutan, Yaghoob Farbood, Alireza Sarkaki, Seyed Esmaeil Khoshnam, Sadegh Moradi Vastegani, Zohreh Lamoochi |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |