The techniques inflicted on the detainees included hooding suspects, putting them into stress positions, sleep deprivation, food and water deprivation and the use of white noise.
Remember that although self-employment and sleep deprivation are considered to go hand-in-hand, if that's how you roll you're doing yourself a disservice.
And largely vegetarian meals, cooked in the Chinese manner, are so varied and delicious that eating less meat won't feel like a deprivation.
Cranhill has a child poverty rate of 44% and an alcohol misuse rate which is 120% above the national average, while its income deprivation rate runs at 30%.
According to 2009 testimony to a US House subcommittee, the Uighur detainees were subject to sleep deprivation, frigid temperatures and isolation.
He was subjected to "48 hours of sleep deprivation, auditory overload, total darkness, isolation, a cold shower and rough treatment".
Susan Redline, a professor of sleep medicine in Boston, has found links between sleep deprivation and the onset of neuropsychiatric disorders such as anxiety and bipolar depression.
The town is also home to a concentration of undecided voters, perhaps because lower levels of deprivation here mean that people have more to lose, perhaps because – as one resident puts – East Lothian "looks both ways", to Edinburgh and the border.
Some research indicates that if the mesolimbic pathway is frequently over-stimulated by sleep deprivation, there could be permanent brain damage.
Eleven of the 14 detainees interviewed by the ICRC said they had been subjected to sleep deprivation.
At least five detainees experienced disturbing hallucinations during prolonged sleep deprivation and, in at least two of those cases, the CIA nonetheless continued the sleep deprivation".
