Polyphasic Sleep and Napping Strategies
Abstract
Sleep deprivation is the most detrimental stress factor for mental performance during continuous military operations. First of all it affects all subjective parameters such as well-being, mood state, motivation, creativity, care for others or social surplus. These changes are followed by alterations in psychometric performance tests such as vigilance tasks, with increasing number of omissions, complex tasks, cognitive functions, reduced reaction speed and learning capacity. When sleep is totally denied for several days more serious neurological symptoms appear such as slow motion, balance disturbance, nystagmus, headache, visual hallucination and sleep narcosis. All this symptoms are most apparent during night-time.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADP010471
Entities
People
- Kristian Opstad
Organizations
- Norwegian Defence Research Establishment