Sleep restriction chronic partial

Chronic partial sleep restriction is a topic of current interest and one that was examined two decades ago by Carskadon and Dement (18). During a week of restriction to 5 hr of sleep a night, 10 college-aged adults manifested an accumulating decrease of sleep latency scores that did not plateau. A more recent chronic sleep restriction study (34) showed a. 95 correlation of performance measures with the Carskadon and Dement MSLT scores. These studies provided important support for the concept of sleep deficits that continue to grow as sleep reduction is prolonged. A more recent interpretation implicates excess wake as the primary factor rather than sleep deficit (35). 

Chronic sleep restriction (cumulative partial sleep deprivation)... 

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