Study provides first evidence of neural link between sleep loss and psychiatric disorders

National Institutes of Health, American Academy of Sleep Medicine ^ | 10/22/07 | University of California - Berkeley

[Red Badger]

When I lose sleep I get crazy......or so my wife says........

[RightWhale]

Why post this without comment?

[Brilliant]

The MSM always said that Bill Clinton did not sleep... just worked 24 hours a day.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

See Boss, it is OK for me to be napping at work....

[najida]

This I file under
“Rain always falls down”.....

It’s obvious.

[wastedyears]

Try sleep deprivation for at least 5 years. You’ll come up with me age 22 + 8 days.

[Abathar]

Anyone who knows someone with sleep apnea can attest to this. The biggest change I ever saw in personality was a guy from work when he started using his CPAP machine, it changed his completely.

[RightWhale]

• Using functioning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI),

  They haven't learned much with their new, expensive tool, but they have to report something to back up the original justification or they won't get funding for the next super-neato tech gadget.

[aruanan]

The biggest change I ever saw in personality was a guy from work when he started using his CPAP machine, it changed his completely.

Good or bad change?

[najida]

Ditto for my brother when he started on the C-PAP. He became human again.

[crazyshrink]

Why post this without comment?
*******
I didn’t sleep well last night.

[SoDak]

Oh no, sleep makes you crazy. I don’t believe in it.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Of course, we shouldn’t hold our breath for this research (and reams of other relevant research) to get applied to medical residents, who are killing people at a frightening rate due to forced sleep deprivation.

And let’s not miss the connection with the march towards fully socialized medicine. Overwork of residents started out as essentially a hazing ritual, in an era when virtually all residents were young men with non-working wives or mothers attending to much of their personal and family responsibilities. The only reason the practice has survived is because it’s the only way to prop up the economics of socialized medicine. If residents’ hours were reduced by the percentage of time spent on non-paying and underpaying patients that the hospital is required to treat for free or for whatever Medicaid/Medicare will pay, they’d probably be working less than 40 hours a week. In other words, they’d have plenty of time for charity care, except that true charity care (i.e. voluntarily given to those the giver believes are deserving) isn’t allowed in our universally socialized hospitals.

[RightWhale]

I have found since retirement that my best sleep happens the two hours following the time I was planning to get up.

[editor-surveyor]

Lots of this sounds like gibberish.

The “fight or flight” reaction is heavily enabled by adrenalin, which is not produced at all until REM sleep levels are achieved, which means usually 5 or 6 hours.

[crazyshrink]

“Rain always falls down”.....

How does it get “up” to begin with? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? :)

[najida]

I agree....
why is it those who need their minds at their sharpest are those who get the least rest sometimes?

[CDHart]

Why would he have to comment? It's an interesting article.

Carolyn

[Enterprise]

Sleep loss and psychiatric disorder. With me, no knows which came first.