Do you have the "GENES" to handle lack of sleep? Well, according to a new study, some people do. This interesting study provides hard evidence that genes play a key role in determining how individuals respond to sleep deprivation. Millions of people have experienced partial sleep deprivation in their lives. The reasons may be due to a lot of work from jobs, college, home or any other place. Many college students are sleep deprived due to exams or even partying. So, this study potentially describes a lot of people.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that healthy individuals who test positive for a common gene variant are sleepier and more fatigued after being sleep deprived than people who don't. The variant is related to narcolepsy, a daytime sleepiness, but according to previous studies one-third of the people who tested positive for this gene were healthy sleepers. Also, this particular gene is carried by 30% of the population and it may be a bio marker for predicting how individuals will react by getting too little sleep. Additionally, investigators found that people with the gene variant had a lower desire to sleep during fully rested nights, and spent less time in deep sleep than those without the variant.
Although, there was no difference between the group that had the gene variant and the group that did not when it came to memory and attention tests, after being sleep deprived. There was also no difference between their abilities to resist sleep during the daytime. A possible explanation for this was given by Namni Goel, an assistant professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, which was that " there might be different genetic variants that regulate physiological responses to sleep deprivation versus how people are able to perform".
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I was watching Mythbusters last night, and ironically, they were trying to find out which is more dangerous; driving under the effects of alcohol or driving while you are sleep deprived? I'm not too sure about the outcome, since I wasn't able to watch the entire episode, but it seemed to me like after being sleep deprived for many hours, our hosts of the show were clearly presenting that driving while you're sleep deprived is worse than if you had a couple sips of alochol. Yeah so not too sure how this connects to the article, but one thing is for sure, depriving yourself from sleep can result in many bad outcomes
ReplyDeleteI think i honestly possess the gene that allows me to function effectively despite being sleep deprived. I found this article very interesting as it caught my attention straight away because I have often been told and thought to myself how I am able to wake up every morning, go to work and college and not be half asleep by mid afternoon. Well now i think i may have my answer, I never imagined it could possible do with gene.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting to me because I have experienced partial sleep deprivation few times, once i kind of fell asleep driving (horrible experience), thanks to God nothing happened. I think there should be a genetic variants that regulate physiological responses to sleep deprivation versus how people are able to perform.
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