1. Sleep can benefit to your body for several ways 2. 1. Sleep retard aging and promote longevity: In a 2010 study shows women ages 50 to 79 who have more sleep hours are live longer than who have less sleep hours. 2. Children‚ teenagers and college students whoever have more sleep hours have higher grades. 3. Adequate sleep can help relieve stress‚ also get enough sleep time can cause you control your blood pressure better. 4. During sleep you can increase your memory
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Sleep and its importance Introduction Sleep is important to our body as food and water‚ though most of us don’t consider it to be essential. Sleep is a necessity and not a luxury. The psychological state called fatigue can occur as often as we suffer from insufficient sleep. Phase of sleep The Non-Rapid Eye movement (non-Rem) and Rapid Eye movement. The Non-Rem: this has four stages 1. TRANSITION TO SLEEP lasts about five minutes: eyes move slowly‚ under the you are easily awakened.
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and driving drowsy because of a lack of sleep that gets worse as they get older‚ according to a new poll released by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF). adolescents (ages 11 to 17)‚ the NSF’s 2006 Sleep in America poll finds that only 20 percent of adolescents get the recommended nine hours of sleep on school nights‚ and nearly one-half (45 percent) sleep less than eight hours on school nights. While most students know they’re not getting the sleep they need‚ 90 percent of parents polled believe
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Definition of the Disease Sleep apnea is known as a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing or episodes of very low breathing during sleep. Apnea is every pause in breathing and it usually lasts for at least 10 seconds and sometimes even minutes. Apnea pauses can occur 5-30 times in an hour. The disease is diagnosed with a sleep study or polysomnogram‚ which is an overnight sleep test. It occurs mainly in three forms obstructive‚ central and mixed or complex sleep apnea‚ which is a combination
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There are a wide variety of sleep problems in the world today. For example sleep apnea‚ snoring‚ sleepwalking‚ confusional arousals‚ sleep-related eating‚ sleep paralysis‚ nocturnal seizures‚ teeth grinding‚ Rapid Eye Movement (REM)‚ and sleep talking. Many of these disorders can be damaging to your health‚ or might not effect you at all. Also‚ if one does have difficulties sleeping there are things that are recommended in order to get a good night sleep. There are many different kinds of parasomnias
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Sleeping Disorder Nightmares are bad dreams occurring during REM sleep. Children experience nightmares more than adults because they spend most of their sleep in REM sleep. Nightmares can be physical such as sleeping in an uncomfortable position‚ having a fever‚ or psychological causes such as stress‚ anxiety‚ and ingestion of drugs used in pain killers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone. REM behavior disorder is a disorder where the mechanism that blocks the movement of the voluntary muscles
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A sleep disorder can be defined as a disturbance of the normal sleep pattern. This causes a disruption in the way an individual typically sleeps‚ which can lead to other complications such as irritability and dysfunction during the day. Four common sleep disorders are insomnia‚ sleep apnea‚ restless legs syndrome‚ and narcolepsy. Nearly 70 million Americans suffer from these and many other sleep disorders every year. Insomnia is a sleep disorder in which the affected individual has difficulty falling
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2013 Interpretation of Sleep “The Sleep” by Caitlin Horrocks basically tell you about the people in the small town of Bounty. Protagonist Albert Rasmussen wife was killed by a drunk driver on an icy road. In this town the people looked up to Albert Rasmussen because he was smart and decided to stay in Bounty after graduation. Albert had gathered the whole town over in his family room to have a discussion. This discussion took place “…before the cameras‚ before the sleep‚ before the outsiders‚
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Sleep Survey Avy Singh Louise Arbour Secondary School Purpose of Research The purpose of this research is to find out if lack of sleep affects students’ functionality throughout the day. Research Question Does the lack of sleep on school nights affect the students’ functionality throughout the school day? Hypothesis If a student gets more sleep‚ then the function much better throughout the day oppose to students who get little sleep. Methodology Who: Students who
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The Not So Silent Killer Sleep apnea is a serious‚ potentially life-threatening condition that is far more common than generally understood. First described in 1965‚ sleep apnea is a breathing disorder characterized by brief interruptions of breathing during sleep. It owes its name to a Greek word‚ apnea‚ meaning “want of breath.” There are two types of sleep apnea: central and obstructive. Central sleep apnea‚ which is less common‚ occurs when the brain fails to send the appropriate signals to
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