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Sleep deprivation

Sleep deprivation

The condition of being deprived of sleep either under experimental or under unusual real life conditions, as distinguished from being unable to sleep. The effects of sleep derprivation lead to impaired hearing, sight, brain function, mental alertness, as well as physical ability, meaning slow reflexes and clumsiness. sleep deprivation is bad for health, leaving one prone to get sick. periods of sleep deprivation of a few weeks leads to death in lab animals.

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