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Building sleep reserves for that coming conference?

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Posted September 14th, 2008 by maarten.vanneste
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Accumulate sleep before that heavy conference.
Heavy conference ahead with early committee meetings and late night “networking” events? Try sleeping more than usual in the weeks prior to the conference.  Research by the American Sleep expert Tracy Rupp with 24 subjects makes her concludes that you can accumulate sleep for ‘use’ in periods of ‘scarcity’.Half of the test group had to be in bed 10 hours a night for a week and the other half 8 hours. After that week, they all got a 3 hours sleep regime for a week followed by a 8 hour a night five day catch-up period.What was the result?

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residing institution (University, company,...): 
the associated professional sleep societies
residing publication (publisher, magazine,...): 
Psychologie magazine
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www.psychologiemagazine.nl
Contact Person Name: 
Tracy Rupp

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