Decoupling of Sleepiness from Sleep Time and Intensity during Chronic Sleep Restriction: Evidence for a Role of the Adenosine System
Author(s) -
Youngsoo Kim,
Yunren Bolortuya,
Lichao Chen,
Radhika Basheer,
Robert W. McCarley,
Robert E. Strecker
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222
H-Index - 207
eISSN - 1550-9109
pISSN - 0161-8105
DOI - 10.5665/sleep.1890
Subject(s) - sleep deprivation , sleep restriction , basal forebrain , neurochemical , wakefulness , medicine , psychology , sleep (system call) , endocrinology , neuroscience of sleep , sleep debt , non rapid eye movement sleep , adenosine a2a receptor , neuroscience , adenosine receptor , circadian rhythm , electroencephalography , receptor , central nervous system , computer science , operating system , agonist
Sleep responses to chronic sleep restriction (CSR) might be very different from those observed after short-term total sleep deprivation. For example, after sleep restriction continues for several consecutive days, animals no longer express compensatory increases in daily sleep time and sleep intensity. However, it is unknown if these allostatic, or adaptive, sleep responses to CSR are paralleled by behavioral and neurochemical measures of sleepiness.
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