Many people believe that when those immediate symptoms of sleep deprivation are no longer noticeable, there is not damage being done to your body and brain. This is incorrect. Sleep deprivation also has long term effects on your brain and body functioning. These include immune system suppression, as one study (Prather, Janicki-Deverts, Hall, and Cohen, 2015) concluded that only getting 6 hours of sleep per night over a week increased a subject’s susceptibility to the common cold. It also lowers control and awareness over your posture (Furtado, et al., 2016), and your brain’s ability for emotion, as shown by a study (Guadagni, Burles, Ferrara, and Iaria, 2014) that showed lower abilities for emotional processing and empathy when chronically tired.…