Sleep Debt Can Not Be Paid

Studies from Brigham and Womenâ € ™ s Hospital in Boston showed that long-term effects of sleep disorders, for example due to the night shift or studying for exams for a few days or weeks, can not be paid only to one or two nights sleep. "Many people think that they can quickly replace a chronic sleep debt with only a day or two sleep soundly. Yet these beliefs wrong," says researcher Daniel Cohen, MD, quoted by WebMD site. Effects of this chronic sleep deprivation, bright Cohen, will still haunt and ruin your performance when awake.
Researchers found that long sleep a night can hide the effects of sleep disturbance and restore performance to normal levels. However, this effect is only temporary time, lasted approximately six hours after waking.Furthermore, the performance will again deteriorate. In addition, the longer you awake more and more mistakes due to fatigue that will happen.
"Those who sleep less during work or school and try to cover drawback to sleep on the weekend might not realize that they're piling chronic sleep debt," said researcher Elizabeth Klerman. It is, further Klerman, could trigger a dangerous condition, such as sudden sleepiness while driving or riding to work at night.
Not enough
In a study published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers asked participants to reduce the nine hours of sleep. They only slept for 5.6 hours per day for three weeks.
Results showed that although participants to replace those with sleep disorders sleeping one night long for 10 hours, the long-term effects of sleep disturbance persists.
Participants with chronic sleep debt experience performance problems when waking, so they are vulnerable to making mistakes and having accidents, especially late at night. For example, when the sleep debt increases, the performance in the test reaction time was also getting worse.