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GeneralRe: Staying up past your bedtime could leave you “functionally drunk” Pin
Ron Anders12-May-16 14:51
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Well one thing is knowing it, another is knowing how much it does affect the single individuals.

For example, we all know that caffein is a stimulant. But how much, and how reliably? My father gets sleepy but has palpitations; a friend of mine becomes like euphorically drunk with no inhibitions whatsoever with half a glass of coke; I get functional. But what is the average? If a generic person drinks a certain amount of caffeine what's the more probable effect and what's its magnitude? Those things are important for a number of reasons.

Also if you look to the financers of the original research you may see that they are various branches of the Army - in battle operations sleep deprivation is a danger real and constant so it's of paramount importance to know exactly how it will affect the majority of operators AND possibly to devise methods of selection / evaluation of resistance to sleep deprivation. Lives depend on it.
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