Saturday, September 12,
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Health Means
More Sleep

A smart New Year's resolution for
many people would be to get more
sleep in 5759. That's because a well-
rested person has much better overall
functioning skills than a someone
who is sleep-deprived.
June Pilcher, Ph.D., and Allen
Huffcutt, Ph.D., both of Bradley
University of Peoria, Ill., say that
mood and cognitive abilities suffer
most when you don't snooze enough.
But motor skills also deteriorate.
On a scale of 1 to 100, with lack
of sleep, mood falls below 1, and cog-
nitive abilities barely reach 1. Motor
skills reach a 19, compared to well-
rested people, who average a score of
50 in all areas. That means the motor
skills of the average sleepyhead are
not even 80 percent that of someone -
who got their 40 winks.
Pilcher and Huffcutt examined
studies on sleep deprivation pub-
lished in medical journals between
1984 and 1992. They focused on
people who got less than five hours
in a 24-hour period (typical of doc-
tors on call), total sleep deprivation
for less than 45 hours (similar to
that experienced by disaster workers)
and total deprivation for more than
45 hours (common in research set-
tings).
The psychologists were surprised
to discover that partial sleep depriva-
tion has a more devastating effect
than total deprivation. Study subjects
who got less than five hours of sleep
in a 24-hour period scored worse in
overall functioning than those who
stayed awake.
"Severely fragmented sleep may be
more detrimental than no sleep at
all," says Pilcher.
And disrupted sleep is the most
common form of sleep deprivation,
whether it's a new parent getting up
every few hours with a baby, a young
doctor on call or a student nervous
about an important test. All three will
have diminished mental and physical
skills as a result of poor sleep. But
Pilcher hopes studies like hers will
change attitudes toward sleep depriva-
tion.
"This is worrisome," she says,
"because the impact of lost sleep is not
as subtle as many people would like to
believe. People often say lost sleep
doesn't matter. It does matter."

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