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hallucinations
- In hallucination: Loss of sleep
Progressive sleep loss appears to decrease one’s capacity for integrating realistic perceptions of the external environment. Hallucinations probably will occur in anyone if wakefulness is sufficiently prolonged; anxiety is likely to hasten or to enhance hallucinatory production. (The disorganizing effect of sleep deprivation has…
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shift work
- In shift work: Effects on psychological and physical health
…to negative outcomes such as sleep deprivation and chronic fatigue.
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study
- In sleep: Sleep deprivation
One time-honoured approach to determining the function of an organ or process is to deprive an organism of that organ or process. In the case of sleep, the deprivation approach to function has been applied—both experimentally and naturalistically—to sleep as a unitary state…
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