Sunday, September 5, 2010

Sleep Deprivation: Symptoms and Treatment

10 Symptoms noted in sleep deprivation: 

1) Thermal dysregulation
2) Hypersensory perception of distal extremities
3) Serotonin depletion with resulting non-constructive thought perseveration
4) Reticence
5) Loss of appetite
6) Misconstruance of otherwise harmless comments
7) Failure to reason from cause to effect
8) Inefficient recall
9) Inaccurate enumeration

Treatment:

Obedience

5 comments:

  1. What is the 10th symptom?

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  2. If you're looking for the 10th symptom, look at symptom #9 ;-)

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  3. Haha. Good one! What is wrong with me to have missed that? Then I will add:
    11) Inefficient attention to detail
    (I'm only averaging 4 hours of sleep a night! :)

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  4. Sleep deprivation is serious, get some help if you have symptoms.

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  5. Vacation sleep deprivation is often overlooked as jet lag. Unwanted sickness is all too commonly a result.

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