Abstract
The discovery of electricity and artificial extension of light phase resulted in reduction in the sleep time to maximize the work or leisure time. Schedules where work has to be done during the nighttime by sleeping in the daytime also result in reduced sleep time invariably. Thus the twenty-first-century social lifestyle is composed of less sleep in our daily routine than what we typically require resulting in a state of chronic sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation has become a major global public health concern due to its detrimental effects on cognitive functioning, road safety, workplace errors, and metabolic and endocrine function. Increasingly, sleep deprivation is being linked to life expectancy also. A recent study by Zhang et al. showed that sleep deprivation results in the degeneration of neurons in the locus ceruleus. Hublin et al. reported that short sleep (less than 7 h) increased the risk of mortality by 26 % in men and 21 % in women compared to individuals with an average length of sleep time of 7–8 h.
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Bollu, P.C., Goyal, M., Sahota, P. (2015). Sleep Deprivation. In: Malhotra, R. (eds) Sleepy or Sleepless. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18054-0_6
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