Deficits may remain after 7-day recovery from 10 days of insufficient sleep

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/926675

 

News Release 1-Sep-2021
Peer-Reviewed Publication
PLOS

 

After 7 days of recovery from a 10-day period of deficient sleep, participants in a small study had recovered their pre-sleep deprivation reaction speed, but had not fully recovered on any other measures of function. Jeremi Ochab of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on September 1, 2021.

Sleep deficiency is well known to negatively impact human functioning. For example, it is associated with deficits in attention and memory, as well as increased risk of car accidents, heart problems, and other medical issues.


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