PSYCH 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sleep Deprivation, Weight Gain, Immune System
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Psych 243 lecture 12 sleep loss. Impairs the brain areas responsible for attention, complex planning, and mental operations and judgements. Not able to function when you need to the most. Nearly 6,000 lives are lost each year due to drowsy driving: people who drive after being awake 17-19 hours perform worse than those with. Bac of 0. 05 percent: staying awake for 24 hours perform similarly to a person with a bac of 0. 10 (legally drunk, 100,000 traffic accidents each year caused by drowsiness and fatigue. Drivers ages 25 or younger are at the wheel in more than half of these crashes. We don"t know how long it takes to recover from chronic partial sleep loss. Sleep recovery after chronic partial sleep deprivation takes several days or longer. Performance recovery after acute sleep loss (an all-nighter ) generally occurs following. After sleep loss: extend sleep to more than eight hours per night until you feel rested again.
