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WSU Researchers Study Lack Of Sleep

Item: WSU researchers studying role lack of sleep plays in decisions/John Stucke, SR

More Info: Need another reason to get eight hours of sleep each night? Washington State University researchers say sleep-deprived people make poor decisions because they struggle to remember and interpret important information. Hans Van Dongen and Gregory Belenky have been delving into why a lack of sleep leads people to make poor decisions. Their findings, based on work completed at the Sleep and Performance Research Center at WSU Spokane, are generating some buzz for upending long-held beliefs.

Question: Do you sleep at least 8 hours at night? If you sleep less, do you consider yourself sleep deprived and prone to bad decisions?



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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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