CellWell record HH-5087
The cumulative cost of additional wakefulness: dose-response effects on neurobehavioral functions and sleep physiology from chronic sleep restriction and total sleep deprivation
Van Dongen HPA, Maislin G, Mullington JM, Dinges DF.
Sleep ยท 2003
In plain language
In a controlled lab study, restricting healthy adults to 6 hours of sleep per night for 14 nights produced cumulative deficits in attention and working memory as severe as those seen after two full nights without sleep, even though participants did not feel as sleepy as they performed.
- Evidence
- Established
- Design
- Randomized controlled trial
- Studied in
- Human
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