Lack of sleep damages the eyes and causes neurological deficits

Lack of sleep is followed by a lot of stress and physical and psychological fatigue, but did you know that it also affects the health of the eye and vision and causes nervous disability!!!
A new study has found that certain eye movements may be damaged when a person does not get enough sleep.

The research team from the National Aeronautics and Space Research Center and Ames Center in California, said that the results show the need to "measure the neurological deficit" caused by sleep deprivation, to prevent workers and employees from committing serious accidents, according to what was published by the "Daily Mail".

In the new study, published in the Journal of Physiology, researchers studied 12 participants who slept an average of 8.5 hours per night for two weeks.

At the end of the two weeks, the participants spent about 28 hours awake in the Fatigue Countermeasures lab. The researchers measured continuous eye tracking movements and rapid scanning movements.

They found that both movements were inconsistent, and that participants had trouble with the speed and direction of the eye.

The team says the findings have important implications for those who work in jobs that require visual and motor coordination, including pilots, surgeons or military service members.

"There are important safety implications for workers who may perform tasks that require precise visual coordination of a person's actions, when sleep deprived or during night shifts," said lead author Lee Stone, a research psychologist at NASA Ames.