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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Central Hospital of Turku Sleep Research Center Dentalia and Department of Public Health University of Turku FIN-20520 Turku Finland... 

Elsmore, T.F. et al., A Comparison of die Effects of Sleep Deprivadon on Syndiedc Work Performance and a Convendonal Performance Assessment Battery, Naval Healdi Research Center, San Diego, CA/Naval Medical Research and Development Command (Report No. 95-6), Bediesda, MD, 1995. 

As mentioned earlier, the U.S. Naval Health Research Center has investigated the efficacy of pemoline over long periods without sleep. Naitoh et al. (59) compared four groups of subjects exposed to 64 hr of continuous wakefulness who received either a 20-min nap every 6 hr, no nap for the duration of the study, 37.5 mg pemoline every 12 hr, or placebo. Performance effects were measured using a four-choice reaction time task administered every 3 hr. While both pemoline and a nap were successful at attenuating fatigue-related degradations in accuracy, response speed, and number of stimuli attempted, the effects on these latter two variables were more robust under pemoline (compared to naps). 

Matteson L.T, Kelly TL, Babkoff H, Hauser S, Naitoh P. Methylphenidate and pemoline effects on sleepiness and mood during sleep deprivation. Naval Health Research Center Technical Report No. 90-41, 1990. 

Henry Ford Hospital, Sleep Disorders and Research Center,... 

This series of monographs, Lung Biology in Health and Disease, includes a number of volumes on sleep, the first one having been published in 1984. Seven of these volumes have been exclusively about one or another aspect of sleep, and others, on different subjects, included components related to sleep. However, lack of sleep did not achieve stardom in this series until Dr. Clete Kushida from the world-famous Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic and Research Center accepted the invitation to edit this volume on Sleep Deprivation Clinical Issues, Pharmacology, and Sleep Loss Effects. 

Henry Ford Hospital, Sleep Disorders and Research Center, and Wayne State University, School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. 

Sleep improves a person s ability to learn repetitive skills, such as riding a bike or typing. Improvements in learning are connected to REM sleep. When the subjects are deprived on REM sleep, their learning ability is impaired. Canadian researchers compared the performance of students cramming for an examination without sleep with classmates who slept after studying. The students who slept retained more information. Sleep is a time when the brain can rehearse recently learned material, says James D. Walsh, Ph.D., Director of St. Luke s Hospital Sleep Medicine and Research Center. If you re sleep-deprived, you ll remember less of newly presented information. ... 

In studies of normal persons deprived of sleep, and colleagues at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, and the Division of Nuclear Medicine of Johns Hopkins, examined the effect of 24, 48, and 72 h of sleep deprivation on the regional cerebral metabolic rate for glucose (CMRglu),young,normal,... 

This work was performed at the Long Beach Veterans Administration Medical Center and the San Diego Naval Health Research Center supported by a Merit Review Grant fiom the Department of Veterans AiJairs, the Sleep-Wake Disorders Research Institute, and the Naval Medical Research and Development Command, Department of the Navy, Bethesda, Maryland under Research Work Unit61153N MR 04101.03-6003. The views presented in this paper are those of the authors. No endorsement by the Department of the Navy has been given or should be inferred. 

Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine Organizations. Research related to sleep is in progress worldwide. The members of the World Sleep Federation include the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), the U.S.-based Sleep Research Society (SRS), the Canadian Sleep Society (CSS), the Federation of Latin American Sleep Societies (FLASS), the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS), the Asian Sleep Research Society (ASRS), and the Australasian Sleep Association (ASA). Most of these organizations offer training, publish academic journals, accredit sleep disorder centers and laboratories, and offer information to clinicians, patients, and the public. Some of them offer fellowships and scholarships for researchers, and a few (such as the ASRS and the ESRS) are umbrella societies with member nations. In the United States, where there are more than... 

These initial studies suggested that the posterior hypothalamus may contain a wakefulness center and provided the initial impetus to pursue further research to understand the role of HA and the posterior hypothalamus in sleep-wakefulness. The next cycle of research substantiating the role of HA in sleep-wakefulness consisted mainly of electrophysiological, biochemical/molecular, and pharmacological studies. 

CHRISTOPHER M. SINTON is Associated Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. A winner of several awards, including the Phillipe Foundation Fellowship for Neuroscience Research, his current research interests focus on the relationship between sleep and energy homeostasis. 

NIH State-of-the Science Conference Statement on Manifestations and Management of Chronic Insomnia in Adults (ed. NIH, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Center on Sleep Disorders Research), 2005. 

This work was supported by the Dayton Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Wright State University School of Medicine, and the Sleep-Wake Disorders Research Institute... 

New York Methodist Hospital, Center for Sleep Disorders Medicine and Research, Brooklyn, 40 East 9th Street, 6F, New York, NY 10003, USA ... 

Arthur J. Spielman, New York Methodist Hospital, Center for Sleep Disorders Medicine and Research, Brooklyn, 40 East 9th Street, 6F, New York, NY 10003, USA and The City College of the City University of New York, Department of Psychology, New York, USA and Presbyterian Hospital, Center for Sleep Medicine, Weill Medical College, New York, USA... 

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