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Friday, January 27, 2006


   Of special interet to students

Alrighty, I found this interesting and decided I'd post it, how's that for ya? Ok, here goes:

Of Special Interest to students is this fact: Sleep deprivation can have a devastating effect on cognitive and motor functioning (Pilcher & Walters, 1997). In plainer language, William Dement says that a big sleep debt "makes you stupid" (Dement & Vaughan, 1999, p. 231). Evidence of this is found in a study that deprived one group of volunteers of sleep and gave another group enough alcohol to make them legally drunk (their blood alcohol content reached .1 percent). After 24 hours of sleep loss---like staying up all night studying for a test---the sleepy volunteers were performing just like the intoxicated group on tests of thinking and coordination (Fletcher et al., 2003).


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