Oligosomnia Pandemic

Our modern hi-tech digital media overwhelmed world with emergence of a new species of iPhone zombies is afflicted with Oligosomnia Pandemic or a pandemic of sleep duration abbreviation or insufficient sleep syndrome (ISS) ( @ WWW.BIT.LY/OLIGOSOMNIAPANDEMIC )as declared on by University of California, Berkeley Neuroscience & Psychology Professor Dr. Matthew Walker in the online media publication which includes a filmed interview by Fox Tv anchor - Sleep deprivation is one of the greatest public health challenges we face says Psychology professor. ( @ WWW.BIT.LY/OLIGOSOMNIPANDEMIC). The viewpoint is canvassed by Dr. Vijay Kumar Chattu, of Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago seeking an answer in the affirmative asks the question Insufficient Sleep Syndrome: Is it time to classify it as a major noncommunicable disease? whose summary of the relevant facts is available in Sleep Science. 2018 Mar-Apr; 11(2): 56–64., where be points out that various models which estimate the undiagnosed burden of insufficient sleep syndrome (ISS) on the gross domestic product (GDP) are needed to prioritize health issues and to highlight the national policies that are necessary to combat this medical problem. Sleep insufficiency has been declared to be a ‘public health epidemic’; therefore, his team proposed oligosomnia as a potential noncommunicable disease as it is a precursor and driver of Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) epidemic and its aftermath the dementia tsunami via Alzheimer’s disease. Their review expands on this point, exploring the causes and consequences of sleep paucity, and offers policies that are needed as well as the urgency of further sleep studies that will explore this issue further and justify their policies and help innovate additional policies.