Sleeping under the Ocean: Despite Total Isolation, Nuclear Submariners Maintain Their Sleep and Wake Patterns throughout Their Under Sea Mission.

To assess the effects of isolation, inadequate exposure to light and specific shift work on the subjective and objective measurements of sleep and alertness of submariners.A strictly controlled randomized crossover study with the polysomnography recorded twice during the mission.Setting: Shift and n...

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Main Authors: Marion Trousselard, Damien Leger, Pascal van Beers, Olivier Coste, Arnaud Vicard, Julien Pontis, Sylvain-Nicolas Crosnier, Mounir Chennaoui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4446350?pdf=render