"Sleep Deprivation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The state of being deprived of sleep under experimental conditions, due to life events, or from a wide variety of pathophysiologic causes such as medication effect, chronic illness, psychiatric illness, or sleep disorder.
| Descriptor ID |
D012892
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.886.425.175 C23.888.592.796.772 F02.830.855.671 F03.870.400.099
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| Concept/Terms |
Sleep Deprivation- Sleep Deprivation
- Deprivation, Sleep
- Deprivations, Sleep
- Sleep Deprivations
REM Sleep Deprivation- REM Sleep Deprivation
- Deprivation, REM Sleep
- Deprivations, REM Sleep
- REM Sleep Deprivations
- Sleep Deprivation, REM
- Sleep Deprivations, REM
Sleep Fragmentation- Sleep Fragmentation
- Fragmentation, Sleep
- Fragmentations, Sleep
- Sleep Fragmentations
Insufficient Sleep Syndrome- Insufficient Sleep Syndrome
- Insufficient Sleep Syndromes
- Syndrome, Insufficient Sleep
- Syndromes, Insufficient Sleep
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sleep Deprivation" by people in Profiles.
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Sleep drive, not total sleep amount, increases seizure risk. Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 29; 16(1):6967.
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Circadian Variation of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2017 11; 3(11):1308-1317.
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Neurocognitive effects following an overnight call shift on faculty anesthesiologists. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2013 Sep; 57(8):1051-7.
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Acute nicotine treatment prevents REM sleep deprivation-induced learning and memory impairment in rat. Hippocampus. 2011 Aug; 21(8):899-909.
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The transcriptional repressor DEC2 regulates sleep length in mammals. Science. 2009 Aug 14; 325(5942):866-70.
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Soluble TNF-alpha receptor 1 and IL-6 plasma levels in humans subjected to the sleep deprivation model of spaceflight. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2001 Jan; 107(1):165-70.