Long Nights in a Sleep Lab

Sleep deprivation is a health issue in today's time as ones mood, learning, productivity, slow response times, accidents due to attention lapses are affected negatively. A typical human should get at least seven to nine hours a sleep every night.

Researches at the University of Pennsylvania has one of the largest labs with the goal of understanding the body and brains functions when humans do not get enough sleep. During this study the volunteers are hooked up to wires to look at the brain habits while taking attention and reaction speed tests. They are only aloud four hours of sleep per night and can partake in watching TV, studding, board games, and may only eat/drink what is provided for the nine days they are studied by the researchers. In result they found that being sleep deprived is a danger for your health and the life of others. They are still trying to optimize humans toleration to sleep loss, and prevent it.

This laboratory's target market are those humans receiving less than optimal sleep. When conducting each individuals test they planned all the variables out the same as they wanted to compare each individual. They researched the background of each person like a company would do with their competitors, and put them in groups accordingly. Sleep is very necessary, so tonight everyone try to get a good amount of sleep.