Judgment of daytime sleepiness in self-reported short, long and midrange sleepers

Sleep-wake behavior, as well as sleepiness, is regulated by the joint action of an exponentially increasing drive for sleep -sleep homeostasis- and by variations in sleep propensity due to a biological circadian oscillator. However, large inter-individual differences remain. Short and long sleepers have been known to differ in the amount of homeostatic sleep pressure: long sleepers report higher levels of subjective sleepiness after sleep deprivation, whereas short sleepers exhibit no [...]

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