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Neuroscience · Sleep & Consciousness

Sleep Deprivation Effects

A topic within Sleep & Consciousness, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.

Reading on Sleep Deprivation Effects

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2 works

Book2017

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

Argues chronic sleep loss causes measurable harm across memory, immunity and mood, a popular synthesis later disputed for overstating the certainty of some of the underlying evidence.

Paper2003

The Cumulative Cost of Additional Wakefulness: Dose-Response Effects on Neurobehavioral Functions and Sleep Physiology From Chronic Sleep Restriction and Total Sleep Deprivation

Hans Van Dongen, Greg Maislin, Janet Mullington & David Dinges

Shows that chronic partial sleep restriction impairs cognitive performance as much as total sleep deprivation, even though subjects stop reporting feeling sleepy.

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