Weekend sleep fails to improve performance, but women handle workweek sleep loss better
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 16:31
in Psychology & Sociology
Performance decreases significantly after six nights of sleep restriction and did not improve after two nights of recovery sleep, a new study has found. Sleep restriction also caused subjective and objective sleepiness to increase significantly; however, sleepiness did improve after recovery. Compared with men, women were found to have less subjective sleepiness and less performance deterioration during sleep restriction, and greater improvements after recovery. These differences were associated with increased amounts of slow-wave sleep in women at baseline.