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To date, most sleep deprivation studies have focused on acute sleep deprivation, suggesting that acute sleep deprivation can cause significant damage to cognitive, emotional, and physical functions and brain mechanisms. [11] Few studies have compared the effects of acute total sleep deprivation and chronic partial sleep restriction. [8]
Many of acute sleep deprivation's effects can be countered by napping, the longer the more beneficial. [57] Some industries, particularly the Fire Service, have traditionally allowed workers to sleep while on duty, between calls for service.
Acute sleep deprivation refers to short-term sleep loss, typically lasting a few days or less. It occurs for many reasons, including stress, illness, travel or lifestyle choices. While the impact ...
Earth-based research has demonstrated that sleep loss poses risks to astronaut performance, and that there are large, highly reliable individual differences in the magnitude of cognitive performance, fatigue and sleepiness, and sleep homeostatic vulnerability to acute total sleep deprivation and to chronic sleep restriction in healthy adults ...
Observations have been made that there is an association between stress, sleep, and Interleukin-6 proposing a possible mechanism for sleep changes. During both chronic and acute phase sleep deprivation, there are increases in the pro-inflammatory cytokine Interleukin-6 (IL-6).
Sleep deprivation is a significant societal problem. It is estimated that around 35.2% of all adults in the US sleep less than 7 hours. [3] Lifestyle choices, health conditions, and the use of stimulants are examples of some of the causes that underlie sleep deprivation in humans.
Sleep deprivation is the second most common trigger of seizures. [15] In some cases, it has been responsible for the only seizure a person ever has. [41] However, the reason for which sleep deprivation can trigger a seizure is unknown. One possible thought is that the amount of sleep one gets affects the amount of electrical activity in one's ...
Sleep disturbances often occur before the onset of psychosis. Sleep deprivation can also produce hallucinations, delusions and depression. [26] A 2019 study investigated the three above-mentioned sleep disturbances in schizophrenia-spectrum (SCZ) and bipolar (BP) disorders in 617 SCZ individuals, 440 BP individuals, and 173 healthy controls (HC).