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Episode 131: Sleep Science

The Science of Everything Podcast

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The Sleep Occurrence Latency Test

Sleep deprivation has a many significant negative effects on cognition, cado vascularand general health. One way that the amount of sleep debt someone is carrying can be measured is to use something called the sleep onset latency test. If it takes you 15 to 20 minutes to fall asleep in an environment like that, that's considered to indicate little to no sleep det and severe sleep deprivation.

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