Losing an hour of sleep for a single night is not trivial
In the Northern Hemisphere, the switch to daylight savings time in March results in most people losing an hour of sleep opportunity. Should you tabulate millions of daily hospital records, as researchers have done, you discover that this seemingly trivial sleep reduction comes with a frightening spike in heart attacks the following day.
Impressively, it works both ways. In the autumn within the Northern Hemisphere, when the clocks move forward and we gain an hour of sleep opportunity time, rates of heart attacks plummet the day after. A similar rise-and-fall relationship can be seen with the number of traffic accidents, proving that the brain, by way of attention lapses and microsleeps, is just as sensitive as the heart to very small perturbations of sleep. Most people think nothing of losing an hour of sleep for a single night, believing it to be trivial and inconsequential. It is anything but.
Example
Interpretation
Comment
article ?
Journalist : Do you think that people may be starting to think that ageing is the real enemy? Aubrey de Grey ...
It doesn't matter whether we are talking about criminality, or psychological characteristics, or psychiatric disorders, or perfectly normal human behaviours ...
Drugs are the product of a complex evolutionary game. As fungi and plants evolved, some developed chemicals in their leaves ...
Oxytocin is the most people's favorite chemical. It's the feeling of friendship, love or deep trust. It is the feeling ...
The excerpt below describes the symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus as they appeared in one of its first known ...