Ultrashort sleep-waking schedule. I. Evidence of ultradian rhythmicity in ‘sleepability’
Abstract
After a 7-8 h sleep at home, 9 young adults were placed on an ultrashort 15 min waking-5 min sleeping schedule for 12 consecutive hours, followed by a monitored recovery night in the laboratory. Six of 4 of the 9 subjects were also investigated in the same way after one night of selective REM deprivation and after one night of total sleep deprivation, respectively. In the first experiment, the amount of stage 1 in each of the sleep attempts varied rhythmically with a frequency of about 14.4 c/day. The average variance at the peak spectral frequency significantly exceeded the mean variance at the rest of the spectral frequencies and the mean variance at the adjacent frequencies. Stage 2 occurred more often around 15-16 h, with no evidence of ultradian rhythmicity. Both REM deprivation and total sleep deprivation disrupted the 100 min periodicity in stage 1 and modified the distribution of stage 2 toward a bimodal rather than a unimodal distribution. The result of the first experiment were interpreted in the light of Kleitman's BRAC model. The ultradian rhythmicity in sleepiness is suggested to play a role in the adaptability and flexibility of the circadian sleep-waking cycle.
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- Authors
- Lavie, P., & Scherson, A.
- Affiliations
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Lavie, Peretz
- ORCID
- Lavie, Peretz
- Venue
- Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1981-08
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 163-174
- ISSN
- 0013-4694 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2079304535
- Cited by
- 109
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
- 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 2.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Circadian rhythm and melatonin
- Keywords
- ultradian rhythms, sleepiness, total sleep deprivation, stage 1 sleep, stage 2 sleep
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Periodicity, Reaction Time, Sleep Deprivation, Sleep Stages, Sleep, REM, Time Factors, Wakefulness
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