Sleep Deprivation Night Naps & Night Sleep For Extend Hour

Question: Describe about the Sleep Deprivation for Naps and Night-time Sleep. Answer: 1. Lydia Dottos experiences on sleep deprivation shows how if deprived of sleep for long extended hours one finds it difficult concentrating or performing tasks. Basically sleep deprivation is a condition where one is deprived of adequate sleep. Such a state can cause body conditions like fatigue, clumsiness, sleepiness, unable to take proper decisions etc. We will see what the Dottos experiment says about it. The first sign felt by participants who kept awake till 12 hours was fatigue and a slip in concentration levels. Frustrations and irritation crept it when something was difficult to understand. The computer test soon seemed to be perceived as boring and irritating. As hours went by the participant became more dull and drowsy and was in no mood to even describe how it felt. As 24 hours of sleep deprivation level reached, the participant felt unhappy. Not just the mood but the test performance became poorer. There was an inside struggle being made to not fall asleep. The next signs were that of uncertainty about the completion of the test. A kind of a depression whether one will be able to make it till the test lasts. On the occasionally nap that was allowed in this experiment the participant felt anxiety and exhausted with the feeling that he is not allowed to sleep as much as he desired. With the nap the scores of the tests taken later improved considerably almost by 40%. Sensations of disappearing or blanking out occurred now and again when there was no sleep for long hours (Dotto, 2000). 2. The relationship between a short nap and a normal nighttime sleep is varied. It is believed that a short nap has control over a nighttime sleep. Naps are small sleep times but a little challenging as unlike night these are the times when there occurs lots of sounds surrounding a person. A nighttime sleep goes through a prior bedtime routine (Michi, 2016). Some positive short term effects of napping which has been noticed in the Dottos experiment are as follows: a) Improved alertness b) EEG activity enhancements meaning increased alertness c) Sleep latency enhanced d) The response to a performance was increased e) Short term memory performance enhanced f) Vigilance performance enhanced (Amber, 2001) From the Dottos experiment both subjects after napping felt refreshed and an improved frame of mind. The feeling was similar to what they were when they began the experiment. These naps helped them perform better in their computer tasks. There was a 40% increase in their score for logical reasoning tests. The only potential negative effect of short naps can be irregular and ineffective nighttime sleep. Studies show that brief naps are better than longer naps as it induces better alertness in human minds. Some negative immediate effects can be confusion, disorientation and sleepiness when short naps are taken (Lack, 2016). 3. Napping is a global activity. Not only naps help one remove sleepiness but also aids in cognitive functioning (Lovato, 2010). Although napping is a phenomenon common for babies, adults also take it as a daily routine throughout their lifespan. Such naps are taken for various reasons. Some can be to make up for loss of sleep or in preparation to a sleep loss. Regular napping for long term can be beneficial to mood, alertness and cognitive performance of a person. Some of the studies of regular long term napping on subjects showed that regular napping keeps people happy and mentally sound. Healthy male individuals aged in between 18 -30 years on long term napping showed improvements on vigilance, alertness and logical reasoning. These individuals were deprived of sleep for 2 nights and took 2, 4 and 8 hours nap at gaps after two days. Effectiveness of a nap also depends on the time it has been taken. Long naps help non occurrences of sleep inertia in individuals. Sleep inertia is a situation where after a long nap usually after half an hour, at a gap the benefits are experienced. During such time individuals are unable to think and perform. Their awakening is not completed because of sleep. Some of the other characteristics of someone going through sleep inertia are confusion, deficit or grogginess. This situation also occurs depending on what stage the individual is in when he or she is napping. Due to sleep inertia one can face impairment of cognitive functions at times (Milner, 2009). 4. I have chosen LiveScience.com for writing the answer of this question. Live Science is a news portal for all geeks and science lovers. It shows the world a true window about why things happen. This news portal is chosen as it always gives a great understanding of the world around us. The news online portal has some good articles on sleep deprivations. The key finding of the documents is that how human beings get affected due to deprivations of sleep. A groggy morning, occasional yawns, mood disorders are very common characteristics of someone who has not shut eyes during nighttime. Sleep deprivation has many other effects also. As per Dr Steven Feinsilver, who is the Director of Centre for Sleep Medicine one can experience tremendous emotional problems if deprived of sleep. Physical and psychological damages can occur. Numerous volunteers come forward so scientists can research on this subject. The problems begin at a very small-scale and grows bigger the more one is deprived of sleep. Some of the common signs found are of deliriums, micro sleeps, hallucinations and a confused state of mind (Miller, 2015) . This was also evident from our textbook research experiment of Dotto. 5. For answering this question I chose a piece from the Journal of Sleep Research with the topic Daytime sleepiness and neural cardiac modulation in sleep-related breathing disorders written in the year 2008. It is observed that some of the various disorders while one sleep leads to breathing problems, daytime sleepiness and other clinical ailments. The reasons for this are unknown and experiments are made to find their reasons. Here in an experiment author has shown how cardiac modulations occurring while asleep are causing disorders of breathing related to sleep during daytime. 53 patients having such sleep disorders went through an experiment of nocturnal polysomnography. Such excessive sleepiness during daytime was known under a Multiple Sleep Latency Test having a response less or equivalent to 600os. Its found that with quality of sleep a persons cardiac regulation, heat rate variations and bar reflex sensitivity varies. People having a lot of daytime sleepiness has high sensitivity and lower to higher ratio of heart rate variability at varied stages of nighttime sleep than patients who do not have daytime sleepiness (Lombardi, 2008). The subjects of experiment are 46 men and 7 wome n who were never on drugs, caffeine abuse, alcohol, diabetes, hypertension, hear or thyroid diseases. Multiple Sleep Latency test administered by standard methods proved the quantity of sleep has an inverse proportion to the severity of daytime somnolence.(Rechtschaffen and kales, 2006) References Dotto, L. (2010), Asleep In The Fast Lane. Michi, R. (2016), The Difference Between Naps and Night-time Sleep, Retrieved from https://childrenssleepconsultant.com/2016/03/31/the-difference-between-naps-and-night-time-sleep/ Amber, J. (2001), The Benefits of Brief and Long Naps, Retrieved from https://journalsleep.org/Articles/240307.pdf Lack, L. (2016), A Brief Afternoon Nap Following Nocturnal Sleep Restriction: Which Nap Duration is Most Recuperative?, Retrieved from https://journalsleep.org/Articles/290616.pdf Lovato, N. (2010), The effects of napping on cognitive functioning, Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47790669_The_effects_of_napping_on_cognitive_functioning Milner, C. (2009), Benefits of napping in healthy adults: impact of nap length, time of day, age, and experience with napping, Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2869.2008.00718.x/full Miller, S. (2015), The Spooky Effects of Sleep Deprivation, Retrieved from https://www.livescience.com/52592-spooky-effects-sleep-deprivation.html Carolina., L. (2008), Daytime sleepiness and neural cardiac modulation in sleep-related breathing disorders, Journal of Sleep Research, Volume 17, Issue 3, Italy Rechtschaffen, A. and Kales, A. (2006), A Manual of Standardized Terminology: Techniques and Scoring System for Sleep Stages of Human Subjects. UCLA Brain Information Service/Brain Research Institute, Los Angeles,