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LT CDR JOHN J. ROSS, MC

Arch Neurol. 1965;12(4):399-403.

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IN SPITE of the awareness that prolonged wakefulness has a detrimental effect on human beings, it was not until 1896 that Patrick and Gilbert¹ first studied three human beings for 90 hours of wakefulness and demonstrated decreases in sensory acuity, motor speed, ability to memorize, and the production of visual hallucinations. Since that time there has been a gradual increase in interest in sleep deprivation by psychologists, physiologists, and psychiatrists. Experiments have primarily taken the form of enforced abstention from sleep for varied lengths of time, with performance and learning tests being administered before, during, and after the prolonged vigil. Studies of the effect of prolonged sleep deprivation from a neurologic point of view, however, are relatively rare. Cooperman et al² demonstrated with von Frey hairs that pain occurred with a weaker stimulation after 60 hours of wakefulness; Freeman³ described increased tone in the quadriceps muscle after . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations

From the US Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research Unit.

Footnotes

Read in part before the meeting of the Association for the Psychophysiological Study of Sleep, Palo Alto, Calif, March, 1964.

Reprint requests to Neuropsychiatric Research, US Naval Hospital Building, 36-4, San Diego, Calif 92134.

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