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...findings, published in last Wednesday in the interdisciplinary journal, Science Translational Medicine, show the effects of as little as one night's sleep loss on performance the following...
...simulate staying up all night and sleeping extra hours the next day to catch up, the researchers put nine volunteers on a specialized sleep-wake schedule consisting of 33 hours of wakefulness and 10 hours of sleep. Using a series of tests, the researchers measured the subjects' reflexes, motor skills, memory, decision making, and other brain functions...
...main take-home message is that… the amount or quality of the sleep for one night is not enough to determine whether someone is fully recovered from weeks of chronic sleep deprivation,” he said...
...findings have direct implications for college students, who frequently stay up all night to study, said Medical School professor Charles A. Czeisler '74, who is one of the authors...
...students don’t pull all nighters “out of the blue,” Czeisler said. Students are likely sleep only four to five hours a night the week leading up to exams. They may also stay up all night to finish studying right before the exam, which only burdens the already-present sleep debt even more...