Systematic Interindividual Differences in Neurobehavioral Impairment from Sleep Loss: Evidence of Trait-Like Differential Vulnerability

To investigate interindividual differences in neurobehavioral deficits during sleep deprivation, and to establish to what extent the neurobehavioral responses to sleep loss are a function of sleep history versus trait-like differential vulnerability.

Individuals were exposed to sleep deprivation on 3 separate occasions in order to determine the stability of interindividual differences in neurobehavioral impairment.