Sleep deprivation
hideSleep deprivation, having too little sleep, can be either chronic or acute. Long-term sleep deprivation causes death in lab animals. A chronic sleep-restricted state can cause fatigue, daytime sleepiness, clumsiness and weight gain.
Complete absence of sleep over long periods is impossible to achieve; brief microsleeps cannot be avoided.
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News tagged with sleep deprivation
An end to sleep problems? Researchers discover enzyme behind effects of sleep deprivation
Nov 26, 2009 |
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There is hope for those who miss one night too many or whose children keep them up at night. The unwelcome effects of a bad night's sleep - forgetfulness, impaired mental performance - can be dealt with by reducing the concentration ...
Sleep deprivation negatively affects split-second decision making, study shows
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Sleep deprivation adversely affects automatic, accurate responses and can lead to potentially devastating errors, a finding of particular concern among firefighters, police officers, soldiers and others who work in a sleep-deprived ...
Getting enough sleep? They aren't in West Virginia
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness.
Dolphins maintain round-the-clock visual vigilance
May 01, 2009 |
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Dolphins have a clever trick for overcoming sleep deprivation. Sam Ridgway from the US Navy Marine Mammal Program explains that they are able to send half of their brains to sleep while the other half remains ...
CIA's 'Enhanced Interrogation' Techniques Were Counterproductive
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The author of a new report suggests the belief that harsh interrogation and torture techniques are effective is a form of folk neuroscience that is not supported by scientific evidence, and does not fit with ...
Study shows that sleep deprivation can negatively affect information processing
Nov 02, 2009 |
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A study in the Nov.1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a more automatic, implicit process of information categorization (information-integration) to a more controlled, explic ...
Sleep loss linked to increase in Alzheimer's plaques
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Chronic sleep deprivation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease makes Alzheimer's brain plaques appear earlier and more often, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report online this week ...
Insomniac flies resemble sleep-deprived humans
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have created a line of fruit flies that may someday help shed light on the mechanisms that cause insomnia in humans. The flies, which only get a small fraction ...
Why Sleep is Needed to Form Memories
Feb 11, 2009 |
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If you ever argued with your mother when she told you to get some sleep after studying for an exam instead of pulling an all-nighter, you owe her an apology, because it turns out she's right. And now, scientists ...
Inadequate sleep leads to behavioral problems
Apr 27, 2009 |
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A recent Finnish study suggests that children's short sleep duration even without sleeping difficulties increases the risk for behavioral symptoms of ADHD.
Sleep may keep you thin: studies
May 07, 2009 |
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The secret of staying thin could be at least partly down to a good night's rest, an international conference on obesity heard in Amsterdam on Thursday.
Researchers identify molecule that helps the sleep-deprived to mentally rebound
Feb 24, 2009 |
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(Physorg.com) -- Sleep experts know that the mental clarity lost because of a few sleepless nights can often be restored with a good night's rest. Now, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a key molecular ...
Poor sleep is independently associated with depression in postpartum women
Jul 01, 2009 |
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A study in the July 1 issue of the journal Sleep suggests that postpartum depression may aggravate an already impaired sleep quality, as experiencing difficulties with sleep is a symptom of depression. Twenty-one percent of dep ...
Gene predicts how brain responds to fatigue, human study shows
Jun 24, 2009 |
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New imaging research in the June 24 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience helps explain why sleep deprivation affects some people more than others. After staying awake all night, those who are genetically vulnerable to sle ...
Bad news for insomniacs: 'hunger hormones' affected by poor sleep
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Insomnia has long been associated with poor health, including weight gain and even obesity. Now researchers at UCLA have found out why.
