Table of Contents

Perspectives; History of Sleep Deprivation; Sleep Deprivation/Fragmentation Paradigms; Total Sleep Deprivation; Partial and Sleep-State Selective Deprivation; Extrinsic Factors Affecting Sleep Loss/Deprivation; Environmental Influences on Sleep and Sleep Deprivation; Shift Work June; Intrinsic Factors Affecting Sleep Loss/Deprivation: Cognitive, Physiologic, and Molecular Associations; Attention and Memory Changes; Cortical and Electroencephalographic Changes; Intrinsic Factors Affecting Sleep Loss/Deprivation: Psychiatric Associations; Mood Changes; Antidepressant Effects; Other Intrinsic Factors Affecting Sleep Loss/Deprivation; Age and Individual Determinants of Sleep Loss Effects; Homeostatic and Circadian Influences.

About the Author

Clete A. Kushida

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