Maybe Donald Trump acts childish because no one tells him he needs to go to bed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s absolutely exhausted to the point he\u2019s almost delirious,\u201d\u00a0Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” said <\/a>during a discussion Monday of Trump’s\u00a0\u201ccompletely racist\u201d remarks<\/a> about the federal judge presiding over Trump University lawsuits.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is a one-man media circus, ringmaster of a show that always seems to be on. He brags about how little sleep he gets.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s 69 years old,”\u00a0Joe Scarborough, ” Morning Joe” co-host, \u00a0said. “He does a standup routine two, three, four times a day in the hot sun. He gets no sleep. He exhausts himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAll this adds up. And it\u2019s very obvious he\u2019s absolutely exhausted by his own choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump has said he <\/a>gets about three to four hours a night<\/a> on average — about half what the National Sleep Foundation recommends<\/a> for people 65 and older. As he gets closer to the world’s most powerful elected office, it\u2019s worth pointing out that Trump’s sleep deprivation may have severe performance consequences, according to evidence that spans the fields of neuroscience, sleep medicine and management.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLack of sleep often affects mood in substantial ways,\u201d Paul Whitney, professor of psychology at Washington State University, told HuffPost. \u201cThere is evidence that lack of sleep decreases the ability to regulate emotion, so sleep-deprived individuals may experience greater emotional reactivity and impulsivity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whitney, who with colleagues has conducted research on the effects of sleep deprivation<\/a>,\u00a0explained that lack of sleep profoundly affects tasks that require quick decisions<\/a> based on feedback from previous tasks.<\/p>\n
This cognitive flexibility, as Whitney described it, is required in emergency situations, where events unfold amid conflicting information about the best course of action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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