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Familial natural short sleep is a rare, genetic, typically inherited trait where an individual sleeps for fewer hours than average without suffering from daytime sleepiness or other consequences of sleep deprivation. This process is entirely natural in this kind of individual, and it is caused by certain genetic mutations.
Those people, known as short sleepers, have been found by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco to have a mutation in seven genes that play a role in regulating sleep and, the ...
Familial natural short sleep (FNSS) is a distinct category of habitual short sleep. Individuals with this trait usually get 4–6.5 hours of sleep per day but do not have daytime sleepiness and do not need catch-up sleep on the weekends. After sleep deprivation, these individuals have less of a sleep deficit than individuals without FNSS.
These “short sleepers” don’t necessarily do it by choice—they’re genetically programmed to require less shut-eye. Some People Have a Superhuman Strength: Only Needing 4 Hours of Sleep ...
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A microsleep is a sudden temporary episode of sleep or drowsiness which may last for a few seconds where an individual fails to respond to some arbitrary sensory input and becomes unconscious. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Episodes of microsleep occur when an individual loses and regains awareness after a brief lapse in consciousness, often without warning, or ...
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