Article #2 Performing Under Sleep Deprivation: Its In Your Genes

The study was made in the New York, which is a multidisciplinary research team consisting of biological scientists and psychologists. They compared how individuals possessing only the longer gene variant and those possessing only the shorter one coped with being kept awake for 2 days, including night. The researchers found out that although some participants had problems to stay awake, others experienced no problems in staying awake. The result of the research were pronounced during the early hours of the morning, during which individuals with the longer variant of the gene performed very poorly on test fro attention and working memory. The findings where that the effects of this gene on the performance may be mediated by its effects on sleep. I think this article was very interesting because we found out how a gene could drastically affect sleeping and your ability to work when they have had a small amount of sleep.  

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