Read more sleep deprivation stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/9837/sleep-deprivation.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:40:07 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72258/survivor-days-of-fasting-before-sweat-lodge-disaster.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagParticipants in the fatal Oct. 8 sweat-lodge ceremony had already been through five days of fasting and sleep deprivation, a survivor says—and the self-help guru leading the proceedings saw their gasping, vomiting and fainting as signs of weakness and urged them to push on through it. No charges have...http://www.newser.com/story/72258/survivor-days-of-fasting-before-sweat-lodge-disaster.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 21 Oct 2009 19:07:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69943/cia-interrogations-caused-brain-damage-scientist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe CIA's harsh interrogations are likely to have damaged the brains of terrorist suspects, diminishing their ability to recall and provide the detailed information the spy agency sought, according to a new scientific paper. The paper scrutinizes the techniques used by the CIA under the Bush administration through the lens...http://www.newser.com/story/69943/cia-interrogations-caused-brain-damage-scientist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 21 Sep 2009 15:26:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67920/memos-cia-kept-prisoner-awake-chained-for-6-days.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn late 2007, a year after the Bush administration abandoned its harshest interrogation methods, CIA operatives used severe sleep deprivation tactics against a terror detainee twice, keeping him awake for 5 and then 6 straight days, with permission from government lawyers to go over the 4-day limit. Interrogators kept the...http://www.newser.com/story/67920/memos-cia-kept-prisoner-awake-chained-for-6-days.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 10:26:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66864/six-hours-of-sleep-not-enough-for-nearly-all.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThink you can get by just fine on 6 hours of sleep a night? Unless you're part of a tiny portion of the population with a mutant gene, you better tuck yourself in a little earlier, reports USA Today . A new study in Science says 97% of the population needs...http://www.newser.com/story/66864/six-hours-of-sleep-not-enough-for-nearly-all.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 13 Aug 2009 20:37:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64768/inside-the-cia-torturers-heads.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe FBI was already getting information out of a suspected terrorist in a series of relatively friendly interrogations in 2002 when the CIA stepped in, a former US official tells the Washington Post . Agency contract psychologists escalated the techniques to sleep deprivation, extreme cold, and waterboarding, which the FBI interrogators...http://www.newser.com/story/64768/inside-the-cia-torturers-heads.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 19 Jul 2009 11:40:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61403/too-little-sleep-jacks-blood-pressure.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRegularly getting less than seven or eight hours’ sleep raises the risk of high blood pressure, research suggests. In a study tracking the blood pressure and sleep of 578 adults, every lost hour of sleep was tied to an average 37% higher risk of high blood pressure over 5 years,...http://www.newser.com/story/61403/too-little-sleep-jacks-blood-pressure.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 09 Jun 2009 13:39:58 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61298/tv-zaps-americans-sleep-time.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFeeling sleepy? Blame the glowing screen in your bedroom. Researchers studying sleep deprivation in the US say the boob tube is a likely cause, HealthDay News reports. Almost half of Americans say they watch TV right before bed, and that means natural sleep signals, like the dark sky and fatigue,...http://www.newser.com/story/61298/tv-zaps-americans-sleep-time.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 08 Jun 2009 12:33:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60303/get-your-priorities-in-order-sex-then-sleep.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagResearch reveals that more than three-quarters of Britons want sleep more than sex, which is understandable, writes Jackie Clune in the Daily Mail . In most people's busy lives, “sex just seems like another thing on the long list of Things To Do.” But it’s important for couples not to let...http://www.newser.com/story/60303/get-your-priorities-in-order-sex-then-sleep.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 28 May 2009 10:41:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58540/torture-memos-raise-sleep-deprivation-concerns.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSleep deprivation has drawn fresh scrutiny with President Obama's release of secret CIA memos on interrogation methods, reports the Los Angeles Times. Depriving detainees of sleep was a central strategy in drawing information from suspected terrorists, and is one of the banned tactics that the CIA tried hardest to keep....http://www.newser.com/story/58540/torture-memos-raise-sleep-deprivation-concerns.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 10 May 2009 8:27:07 CDT