The Cumulative Cost of Additional Wakefulness: Dose-Response Effects on Neurobehavioral Functions and Sleep Physiology From Chronic Sleep Restriction and Total Sleep Deprivation
Author(s) -
Hans P. A. Van Dongen,
Greg Maislin,
Janet Mullington,
David F. Dinges
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-9109
pISSN - 0161-8105
DOI - 10.1093/sleep/26.2.117
Subject(s) - sleep (system call) , sleep restriction , sleep deprivation , wakefulness , sleep debt , privation , medicine , insomnia , psychology , circadian rhythm , electroencephalography , psychiatry , computer science , operating system
To inform the debate over whether human sleep can be chronically reduced without consequences, we conducted a dose-response chronic sleep restriction experiment in which waking neurobehavioral and sleep physiological functions were monitored and compared to those for total sleep deprivation.
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