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SLEEP DEPRIVATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A form of psychological torture inflicted by depriving the victim of sleep
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sleep deprivation" is a kind of...):
torture; torturing (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason)
Context examples:
Sleep deprivation - typically administered in controlled, inpatient settings - rapidly reduces symptoms of depression in roughly half of depression patients, researchers found.
(Sleep Deprivation: Effective Anti-Depressant, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
In the study, 32 healthy adults participated in a five-day experiment consisting of two, 8-hour baseline nights, followed by 39 hours of total sleep deprivation (TSD), in which they were not allowed to sleep, and followed by two, 8-to-10-hour recovery nights.
(Why Lack of Sleep Affects Some More Than Others, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Partial sleep deprivation (sleep for three to four hours followed by forced wakefulness for 20-21 hours) was equally as effective as total sleep deprivation (being deprived of sleep for 36 hours), and medication did not appear to significantly influence these results, according to the first meta-analysis on the subject in nearly 30 years, from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
(Sleep Deprivation: Effective Anti-Depressant, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
MiRNAs are viable biomarkers of sleep deprivation, psychological stress, and cognitive vulnerability in humans and can be used to identify individuals ahead of time who are in need of countermeasures or interventions such as caffeine or naps to mitigate or prevent impairments associated with insufficient sleep.
(Why Lack of Sleep Affects Some More Than Others, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
More than 30 years since the discovery of the antidepressant effects of sleep deprivation, we still do not have an effective grasp on precisely how effective the treatment is and how to achieve the best clinical results, said study senior author Philip Gehrman.
(Sleep Deprivation: Effective Anti-Depressant, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Reviewing more than 2,000 studies, the team pulled data from a final group of 66 studies executed over a 36 year period to determine how response may be affected by the type and timing of sleep deprivation performed (total vs early or late partial sleep deprivation), the clinical sample (having depressive or manic episodes, or a combination of both), medication status, and age and gender of the sample.
(Sleep Deprivation: Effective Anti-Depressant, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
