Akhilesh Reddy of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on research that explored the effects of sleep deprivation on the brain, saying that even though the study was performed on mice, the animals’ brains have proved to be a reasonable substitute for human brains in past experiments.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sleep-deprivation-shuts-down-production-of-essential-brain-proteins/ Scientific American