When the body is sleep-deprived‚ it is like a car running on a half-empty gas tank. People usually don’t know when their bodies will run out of fuel- and the results can be disastrous. In fact‚ sleep deprivation has caused tragedy: It is the second leading cause of all car accidents in the United States. At least one-third of Americans‚ about 85 million people‚ sleep only six of the eight or nine hours that sleep specialists say is needed each night. According to James Maas‚ a sleep specialist‚ this
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Confidence really come with Knowledge? | 2 | ii. | How does a Shark Hunt? | 3 | iii. | What efforts are being taken to protect Endangered Wildlife? | 4 | iv. | What are the dangers and hazards of Nuclear Power? | 5 | v. | Why do we sleep? | 6 | vi. | How does Tobacco use affect the human body? | 7 | vii. | What are the causes of Tornadoes? | 8 | viii. | In what ways do Video Games affect children and teenagers? | 9 | ix. | What is stress? | 10 | x. | What
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Good Sleep Hygiene: Making Students’ Lives Better One Program at a Time Abstract This paper demonstrates why we need an educational program at our university that promotes good sleep hygiene. It discusses the positive effects that this program would have. To empower students to improve their sleep that will increase their test scores. It will give a look inside sleep debt and its repercussions. It will students see that if we do not teach good sleep hygiene it can lead to negative effects on
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Another physiological process that sleep deprivation can affect is the plasticity of the hippocampus. When applied in stressful environments‚ the amount of glucocorticoid production increases (McEwen‚ 1999). This increase in stress hormones correlates to the atrophy or the shrinkage of the hippocampal region. While this correlation is strongly related‚ other factors do in fact play a part in hippocampal atrophy. For example‚ the amount of dentate gyrus neurons in the brain could also have an effect
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Importance of Sleep to Humans Try to imagine the following scenarios. A man just ran his Ford F-150 truck into the subcompact car in front of him‚ all because he was “nodding off” behind the wheel. Two blocks down the street is a seriously depressed businessman‚ considering ending it all‚ buy jumping from the roof of his high-rise office building. Downstairs‚ in the same building‚ is a woman at work with a terrible headache. She is having a hard time concentrating on tasks she normally would
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Sleep disruption can be defined as any essential deviation in sleep quantity‚ integration‚ or timing relative to the optimal sleep needed by a given individual (usually between seven and nine hours of uninterrupted sleep during the night). Sleep disruption is typically focused on total sleep deprivation‚ showing that skipping sleep completely leads to decrease vigilance‚ problems with cognitive control‚ and impaired mental flexibility (Kirzan and Herlache‚ 2015). There is a little research on sleep
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Late Night Cup of Coffee: Bad for Sleep Sleep is very important to human beings especially because it allows both our minds and body to rest. It sorts out and arranges our memory and it is necessary for our body to function well. In fact about 40% of a person’s day is allocated to sleep throughout adolescence. However‚ adolescents who are people aged 12 to 18 years need 9 hours of sleep but on average most teens get 7 hours only (Mindell and Owens 30). A variety of factors contributes to the tendency
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ADHD and Sleep Patterns The purpose of this research is to explore the sleep patterns of children with ADHD symptoms that have been reported by parents. The hypothesis according to O’Brien et al. (2003‚ p. 334) is that “domains of neurobehavioral function would be selectively affected by sleep-disordered breathing (SDB).” The null hypothesis according to this research is that multiple sleep disorders are more relevant in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder‚ ADHD‚ symptoms
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In the novel " The Big Sleep "‚ there’s a character by the name of Philip Marlowe. Philip Marlowe is a private investigator who is hired to work for a wealthy man named General Strenwood‚ in the month of october. General Sternwood wants Marlowe to deal with a blackmail on his wild young daughter Carmen . Carmen is being blackmailed by a book seller named Arthur Geiger she was also previously blackmailed by Joe Brody. Carmen is clearly the femme fatal who killed her brother in law Rusty because he
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The Science of Dreams You have dreams basically every night‚ right? Well sometimes we wonder why we would have such a good or bad dream. I have always wondered that‚ so I gathered enough information to write an eight page essay about dreams. The science of dreams‚ mostly every night we have a dream. The science term for a dream is oneirology. The word dream comes from the Middle English phrase “drem.” Sometimes dreams feel as if they last all night‚ but most of them don’t
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