Sleep deprivation
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Sleep deprivation is a general lack of the necessary amount of sleep.
This may occur as a result of sleep disorders, active choice or deliberate inducement such as in interrogation or for torture
Physiological effects
- Generally, lack of sleep may result in
- aching muscles
- blurred vision
- clinical depression
- colorblindness
- daytime drowsiness and naps,
- decreased mental activity and concentration
- dizziness
- dark circles under the eyes
- depersonalization/derealization
- delerium
- excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS)
- fainting
- general confusion
- hallucinations (visual and auditory)
- hand tremors
- headache
- hyperactivity
- hypertension
- impatience
- irritability
- lucid dreaming (once sleep resumes)
- memory lapses or loss
- nausea
- nystagmus
- psychosis-like symptoms
- pallor
- rapid involuntary rhythmic eye movement
- increased desire for sexual activity
- slowed reaction time
- slurred and/or nonsensical speech
- weight loss or gain
- weakened immune system
- severe yawning
- and symptoms similar to
- Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- alcoholic intoxication
Diabetes
A 1996 study by the University of Chicago Medical Center showed that sleep deprivation severely affects the human body's ability to metabolize glucose, which can lead to early-stage Diabetes Type 2.
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