People with deprived sleep are more likely to take risky decisions. Going with the recommendations of many research scientists who believe that sound sleep is a must for people to maintain health, a recent US study has unleashed another facet to the same issue.

As per reports, a student who spends night after night for long study takes quick decisions and is often prone to make a loss out of it. Moreover, they claim that killing sleep in the night stimulates optimism in the brain and roots out negative elements, resulting in a decision which can prove to be risky.

For the study, 29 people were roped in, out of which some of them had taken sound sleep and some of them were restless due to improper sleep. Following this, they were assigned a task and researchers noticed a sudden increase in the motion in ventromedial prefrontal region of the brain and a simultaneous decrease in the region called the anterior insula.

The researchers believe that people who are killing their sleep simply put down safer options and get fixated with the most risky solution.

Responding to the situation, Michael Chee, the lead author of the study from the Duke-NUS Neurobehavioral Disorders Program in Singapore, reportedly claimed that changes in the chemical composition in Brain is the potential reason for risky decision making.