[Grammar] suffer

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Maybo

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Without sleep, memory and decision processing suffer.

Does it mean without sleep, memory and decision would suffer, or they have to deal with suffer?
 

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The sentence means your memory and ability to make good decisions diminish if you haven't had enough sleep.

I don't understand "they have to deal with suffer".
 

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Two things suffer:
1) memory
2) decision processing
 

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Source and author please, Maybo.
 
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