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Article: New Study Shows Some Sleep Deprivation Effects are Not Improved by the Stimulant Amphetamine
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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WESTCHESTER, Ill., June 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- For individuals
required to undergo sleep deprivation in potentially life-
threatening situations, a recent series of animal studies by
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers offers important news.
Animals deprived of rapid eye-movement (REM) sleep for up to five
days were less able to cope with stressful or threatening situations -
and giving them amphetamines to decrease their sleepiness did nothing
to improve poor coping responses and, in some cases, actually made
them worse.
The research, conducted by University of Wisconsin psychiatry and
HealthEmotions Research Institute faculty, was published in the June
15, 2004, issue of the ...