The cumulative cost of additional wakefulness: dose-response effects on neurobehavioral functions and sleep physiology from chronic sleep restriction and total sleep deprivation
Hans P. A. Van Dongen · Greg Maislin · Janet M. Mullington · David F. Dinges
Sleep · 2003
What the research tells us
Repeated sleep restriction produced cumulative cognitive performance deficits that subjective sleepiness did not fully track.
What to keep in mind
Laboratory sleep restriction does not define everyone’s recovery timeline or a universal recovery debt.
Study details
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- POPULATION & SAMPLE
- 48 healthy adults aged 21–38; experiments included 14 nights of restricted time in bed
- EXPOSURE / INTERVENTION / SUBJECT
- 4, 6 or 8 hours in bed per night; a separate total-deprivation experiment
- OUTCOMES
- Cognitive performance, subjective sleepiness and sleep physiology
- TIME FRAME
- 14 nights of restriction or 3 nights without sleep; 3 baseline and 3 recovery days in each experiment
- STUDY FUNDING
- Not yet verified against the full text.
- STUDY CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
- Not yet verified against the full text.
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