Tuesday, July 17, 2012

No, Sleep Deprivation Probably Won't Make You Go Temporarily Insane

No, Sleep Deprivation Probably Won't Make You Go Temporarily Insane
Sleep Deprivation Insanity

In this April 2, 2012, file photo JetBlue pilot Clayton Frederick Osbon, right, is escorted to a waiting vehicle by FBI agents as he is released from The Pavilion at Northwest Texas Hospital, in Amarillo, Texas. Osbon is accused of disrupting a flight when he left the cockpit screaming about religion and terrorists plans to use an insanity defence at trial. Osbon's attorney filed a motion Wednesday, April 18, 2012 outlining plans to argue Osbon was insane at the time of the incident on the March

The Body Odd:

Chronic sleep deprivation -- or a severe, short-term lack of Z's from, say, cramming for exams over two straight nights -- can make you silly or sad, slow to react, memory-impaired and more apt to take risks.

But what it rarely does, according to a leading sleep expert, is make you go temporarily insane, as a JetBlue Airways pilot apparently did on a March 27 flight from New York to Las Vegas.

Read the whole story: The Body Odd


Chronic sleep deprivation -- or a severe, short-term lack of Z's from, say, cramming for exams over two straight nights -- can make you silly or sad, slow to react, memory-impaired and more apt to tak...

Chronic sleep deprivation -- or a severe, short-term lack of Z's from, say, cramming for exams over two straight nights -- can make you silly or sad, slow to react, memory-impaired and more apt to tak...


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