Monday, 2 March 2015

What It’s Like to Need Hardly Any Sleep

What It’s Like to Need Hardly Any Sleep


While most people don't function well after an extended stretch of four or fewer hours of sleep a night, there may be a very small percentage who can thrive under these circumstances. In a landmark 2009 study, researchers discovered a genetic mutation in a mother and daughter who seemed to need much less sleep than the average person — the first time any mutation relating to sleep duration had been found (while the sample size wasn’t huge, the effect was replicated in mouse and fruit fly...

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