Ce a fost înainte de Big Bang? by Martin Bojowald

When sleep is attained, the spoon will fall and strike the plate, awakening the subject, who then checks to see how much time has passed. After checking the time, the subject tries to relax and fall asleep. The subject reclines in a quiet, darkened room and drapes a hand holding a spoon over the edge of the bed or chair, placing a plate on the floor beneath the spoon.

Not getting enough sleep during any given period of time leads to a phenomenon called sleep debt, which lowers sleep latency scores and makes sleep-deprived individuals fall asleep more quickly.įor home-testing for an unusually low sleep latency and potential sleep deprivation, the authors point to a technique developed by Nathaniel Kleitman, the 'father of sleep research'. The studies eventually led Dement and Carskadon to conclude that 'the brain keeps an exact accounting of how much sleep it is owed'.

The amount of sleep loss was directly linked to changes in sleep latency scores. When scientists deprived subjects of sleep, they found sleep latency levels could drop below 1, i.e., subjects could fall asleep in less than a minute. If a volunteer was still awake after 20 minutes, the experiment was ended and the subject given a maximal alertness/minimal sleepiness rating. They noted the number of minutes, ranging from 0 to 20, that it took a subject to fall asleep. When they initially developed the MSLT, Dement and others put subjects in a quiet, dark room with a bed and asked them to lie down, close their eyes and relax. 'This may not seem like an earthshaking epiphany, but conceiving and developing an objective measure of sleepiness was perhaps one of the most important advances in sleep science,' Dement and coauthor Christopher Vaughn write of the discovery. In the course of evaluating experimental results, they realized that the amount of time it took to fall asleep in bed was closely linked to the subjects' own self-evaluated level of sleepiness. Dement and colleagues including Mary Carskadon had been seeking an objective measure of daytime sleepiness to help assess the effects of sleep disorders. Dement reports early development of the concept, and of the first test for it, the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), in his book The Promise of Sleep. Pioneering Stanford University sleep researcher William C. In sleep science, sleep onset latency ( SOL) is the length of time that it takes to accomplish the transition from full wakefulness to sleep, normally to the lightest of the non-REM sleep stages. Quantitative measure of the tendency to fall asleep MSLT Scores

Ce a fost înainte de Big Bang? by Martin Bojowald