Schneider D
Schweiz Arch Neurol Neurochir Psychiatr. 1977;121(1):47-54.
For this paper, psychophysiological relationships between stress and sleep are considered with reference to clinical psychiatric problems. Answers to the first question--how does sleep affect the tolerance of stress in the waking state?--are provided by sleep deprivation experiments. The latter show that total sleep deprivation has a great influence on stress. However gradual partial sleep deprivation to a sleep time of 5 hours seems well tolerated by most individuals. In some special cases we found subjects well adapted to the workaday world who could live with briefer sleeping periods. Because of experimental problems, the second question--how does stress affect sleep?--is more difficult to answer. Anxiety is one of the most important factors deteriorating sleep under conditions of stress. This reduced sleep is in turn stressful for waking behavior. Thus, the relationship between stress and sleep, two factors separated for scientific investigation, is essential and especially important in the problem of insomnia.
在本文中，结合临床精神疾病问题来探讨压力与睡眠之间的心理生理关系。关于第一个问题——睡眠如何影响清醒状态下对压力的耐受性？——睡眠剥夺实验给出了答案。这些实验表明，完全睡眠剥夺对压力有很大影响。然而，大多数人似乎能很好地耐受逐渐减少到5小时睡眠时间的部分睡眠剥夺。在一些特殊情况下，我们发现一些受试者能很好地适应日常工作生活，他们可以在更短的睡眠时间下生活。由于实验方面的问题，第二个问题——压力如何影响睡眠？——更难回答。焦虑是压力条件下导致睡眠恶化的最重要因素之一。这种睡眠减少反过来又会给清醒行为带来压力。因此，压力与睡眠这两个为科学研究而分开的因素之间的关系至关重要，在失眠问题中尤其重要。
