Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research

Koushal Dave ¹, Ashia Qureshi ¹, L. Gopichandran ¹

Affiliations
1 All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, IN

Abstract

Sleep is a natural state of bodily rest. It is common to all irrespective of breed, culture and caste. Regular sleep is essential for survival for human beings. Two physiologic processes regulate sleep, the circadian and homeostatic mechanisms where the homeostatic component monitors the need for sleep and circadian process governs the variations in sleep over 24 hours.

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