important for kids to get a good night sleep 1. Sleep is restorative for the brain. 2. Too little sleep can lead to weight gain by altering levels of the hormones that regulate satiety and hunger‚ leading to overeating‚ overweight‚ and obesity. 3. Growth hormone is secreted during slow wave sleep. 4. Insufficient sleep is associated with a higher incidence of behavioral problems‚ especially attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). 5. Sleep disruption caused by snoring
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If you’ve ever experienced sleep paralysis‚ then you probably know the feeling of being paralyzed when falling asleep or waking up‚ or hallucinating that a malevolent spirit is bearing-down on you. Have you ever felt so frightened‚ you thought you would die? Have you ever experienced total-body paralysis just before falling asleep or immediately upon awakening? If you have‚ then you’re not alone. Symptoms like these are very common among people who suffer from sleep paralysis. If you’re not familiar
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Obstructive sleep apnea is a sleep disorder that is defined by the absence of breathing for at least ten seconds due to obstruction of the airway. This obstruction can be caused by the tongue‚ soft palate or uvula relaxing and blocking the airway. A person with OSA will have noticeable breathing efforts‚ such as chest rise‚ but will not be able to take are into the lungs. This causes the person to startle awake. Often times the person with the sleep disorder is not even aware that they have a problem
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the issues that Mother has recently been having. Last week‚ we covered the topic of sleep‚ and I was able to learn a lot about the subject. The primary tool used that has lead to a great deal of discoveries in the field of sleep and dreams is called an electroencephalograph (EEG). It is basically a device that monitors the electrical activity of the brain over a certain amount of time. When mom visited The Sleep Center yesterday‚ they used the machine on her--in case you still do not know what I
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2011 A Summary of "Sleep Debt and Mortgaged Mind." William Dement and Christopher Vaughn in “Sleep Debt and the Mortgaged Mind‚” relates sleep debt to a loan. The authors tried to stress the importance of understanding the serious if not fatal consequences of sleep deprivation. We must not only learn to recognize the dangers of sleep debt‚ but how we should manage it as well. The Authors in this well written article went into details of how we should pay back or sleep debt‚ and learn from tragic
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Sleep Chart for 2/20-2/26 : Tia Weatherington Throughout this week I choose to track my sleep patterns I learned many things but also was left slightly puzzled. When it came to some of the results and varying energy levels. I started on Monday (02/20/2016) I ended up sleeping a total of 5 hours and 30 minutes which isn’t a lot of sleep. I woke up and felt groggy which isn’t uncommon for me. I’ve always had a hard time waking up in the mornings. Throughout the day I felt tired‚ I had a hard time
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Lecture Ready 1 – Video and Audio Script Chapter 1: Lecture OK. Well‚ welcome‚ everyone‚ to Psychology 210. Please take a seat. This is Psychology 210: Introduction to Social Psychology. I hope everyone is in the right room. Are you? OK‚ good. Let me get started. For today‚ this afternoon‚ since this is our first day‚ I want to talk to you about this course. I’m going to give you some information about what we will study and how we will study it. So‚ I want to talk briefly about the field
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Outline: Thesis: Being far from home has many differences from being near home. I: Intro II: The similarities that they both have if I was far or near home a) Talk to family b) Love family c) Meet new people III: How it is when I’m near home a) Sleep in my own bed b) Enjoy mama’s cooking c) Enjoy the family IV: How it is when I am far away from home a) Adapted to new settings and environment b) Learn how to mature c) Set my own rules/ no one to answer to V: Conclusion Jalen Moffitt
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Case Study #1 The Sleep Well Motel In April 1990‚ Will Shelton was evaluating information received from the owner of a motel that was for sale in Fort Morgan‚ Colorado. Will had answered an ad in the Wall Street Journal under the heading “Business for Sale.” To Will’s surprise‚ he received a call directly from Hank Bennington‚ the owner of the Sleep Well Motel of Fort Morgan‚ Colorado. During the conversation‚ Mr. Bennington described his motel and his reason for wanting to sell. He also described
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Stage 1 Sleep NREM stage 1 sleep serves a transitional role in sleep-stage cycling. Aside from newborns and those with narcolepsy and other specific neurological disorders‚ the average individual’s sleep episode begins in NREM stage 1.Stage 2 sleep lasts approximately 10 to 25 minutes in the initial cycle and lengthens with each successive cycle‚ eventually constituting between 45 to 55 percent of the total sleep episode. An individual in stage 2 sleep requires more intense stimuli than in stage
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