Sleep Deprivation
An archived article by Raymond Thacker

Sleep experts have recommended sleeping 8 hours per night for remaining healthy and fit but many people don’t get enough time to sleep due to excess workload. This lack of sleep is called sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation may have serious effects on health and relationships. Sleep deprivation may be some times deadly. No body knows why sleep is required but sleep is as important as food and water. Sleep is helpful for the brain to recharge its energy and store memories for a long time. Sleep also helps the body to fight from off.

The effects of sleep deprivation are as follows:
• People who experience sleep deprivation lack energy, become depressed or short-tempered, have problem in remembering things, and remain always sick than people who sleep enough. They always have problems concentrating at their work or school. Some people who have sleep deprivation may cause diabetes, high blood pressure, heart problems, and even obesity.
• Sleep deprivation also leads to accidents. More than 200,000 accidents happen every year because drivers fall asleep at the wheel.
• On the other hand, too much sleep is also harmful as too little. An adult person must sleep 7-8 hours in a night to remain healthy and fit and free from any heart disease.
To avoid sleep deprivation one must keep some points on mind:
• Avoid caffeine, nicotine or alcohol, particularly in the daytime.
• Always eat light food shortly before bedtime.
• Sleep at the right time and wake up at the same time in the morning even in weekends.
• Do regular exercises to avoid sleep deprivation early in the morning.
• Keep the bedroom cool, dark and quiet is a best method to avoid sleep deprivation.
• The bed must only be used for sleep and sex.
• Before bedtime, muscle-relaxing exercises should be done or a warm bath should be taken.
• Avoid taking sleeping pills unless a doctor prescribes it.
• Avoid daytime naps.
• Counting backward may help some people to sleep.
• If you don’t sleep even after lying 30 minutes, then get up, and read something or watch television, and then return to bed when you feel sleepy.

Sleep deprivation is a general condition that badly affects nearly a quarter of the adult population. In 1999 the University of Chicago Medical Center specify that the sleep deprivation radically affects the body's ability to metabolize glucose, that leads to symptoms of early-stage of diabetes.

Some of the common symptoms of sleep deprivation are exhaustion, fatigue and lack of physical energy. These symptoms of sleep deprivation affect our emotional moods, causing pessimism, sadness, stress and anger. One of the main symptoms that are mainly seen in the people who suffer from sleep deprivation is lack of memory. Driving and other activities may become dangerous in case of sleep deprivation.

Emotional stress or excitement is the main causes of suffering from sleep deprivation. Food additives and caffeine may also make people suffering from sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation can be treated successfully. Symptoms of sleep deprivation may include: insomnia, excessive snoring, choking sensations during sleeping, nightmares etc.

The main causes of sleep deprivation are as follows:

• Not getting enough time to sleep
• Something that causes poor quality sleep
• Sleeping disorders
• Excessive worry and depression leads to sleep deprivation.
• Sleep disturbances due to noise
• Heavy workload and traveling across time.
• Medical illness causing pain or difficulty in breathing etc.

The common consequences of sleep deprivation are vehicle and work accidents and decreased productivity. If sleep deprivation becomes a chronic problem, sleep deprivation may cause difficulties with making social relationships due to bad temper and some significant medical problems.

Accidents related to sleep deprivation mostly happen in early morning and in mid afternoon when everyone is least alert. These accidents can be avoided by excess sleeping at night and adding naps in the afternoon.

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Effects of Sleep Deprivation
An archived article by Raymond Thacker



Though effects of sleep deprivation can be unfavorable on a person’s mood and functioning of his brain, the effects of sleep deprivation depend upon the person and the type of sleep loss.


A Research made by Dr. Pierre Phillip on effects of sleep deprivation investigates on the effects of age on neurobehavioral functioning after sleep deprivation by using procedures of reaction time. These investigators studied the effects of sleep deprivation of one night on reaction time in two groups: healthy males with an average age of 22 and healthy older males with an average age of 58, and all of them were normal sleepers among them.


The effects of sleep deprivation on older persons had slower reaction times than younger students. However, effects of sleep deprivation become reversed after a night of total sleep deprivation. From the present findings they suggest that the effects of sleep deprivation is not much significant in older adults. In order to develop a more perfect picture of the effects of sleep deprivation on neurobehavioral functioning, future studies require the necessity to include older adults, of age 60 or above.


The effects of sleep deprivation are not a "one size fits all" phenomenon. Sleep deprivation is a huge problem through out the world. Effects of sleep deprivation mainly points on body health. These people feel tired, restless. The person’s concentration might broke. Everything becomes very difficult for the person to do. These effects of sleep deprivation may shorten a person’s life. To avoid these effects of sleep deprivation one may suggest considering an earlier bedtime. Since the effects of sleep deprivation may be harmful to a certain extent, so one should make a perfect attempt to avoid these effects of sleep deprivation by taking care of him or her.


The Effects of sleep deprivation on Brain and Behavior


Every day people have as much of work but much less time to complete it so they have to sacrifice their sleeping time for completing the work. This is one of the effects of sleep deprivation.


• The effects of sleep deprivation mainly occur in brain. Sleep is needed to recharge certain parts of the body, specially the brain, so that it may function properly and if the brain does not work properly it may affect the person’s behavior.
• Some period of sleep are important for the regeneration of neurons within the cerebral cortex while other are used for forming new memories and generating new synaptic links. With relation to the presence of activity in various sections of the cerebral cortex have been used for testing the effects of sleep deprivation on a person’s behavior.
• The effects of sleep deprivation may be properly seen in a deprived person during verbal learning tests when the person’s brain become inactive by functional magnetic resonance imaging scans.
• The effects of sleep deprivation can be observed by the indistinct speech of persons who have gone for an extended period without sleep.
• Still, the effects of sleep deprivation remains on these people during these tests, as they are fully rested subjects.
• The effects of sleep deprivation on the brain mainly in the region of cerebral cortex leads to loss of memory.
• The effects of sleep deprivation are seen mainly in the people within the brain when no corresponding activity is visible during a person doing math problems.


One of the main effects of sleep deprivation is hallucination. Not only this but the most extreme side effects of sleep deprivation is death.