The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on May 22, 2018, 02:24:34 pm
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Insufficient sleep, even without extended wakefulness, leads to performance impairments
May 21, 2018, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Millions of individuals obtain insufficient sleep on a daily basis, which can lead to impaired performance and other adverse physiological outcomes. To what extent these impairments are caused by the short sleep duration or corresponding extended wakefulness was unknown. A team of researchers from BWH have isolated the impacts of short sleep and extended wakefulness on vigilant performance decline and their results are published in PNAS.
"If somebody is routinely awake for more than 18 hours daily, then they are also routinely sleeping for less than six hours daily.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-05-insufficient-impairments.html