3-24-15 Eng 101 Cynthia Dobbins Effects of sleep deprivation Sleep deprivation is a serious issue an estimated 50-70 million U.S. adults suffer from a sleep disorder. (CDC para.1) This is a problem that can effect anyone. Getting a good night’s rest is very important to having a productive day‚ not getting enough sleep is a lot like wasting a day. There have been a countless number of studies on sleep deprivation to back up the fact that getting enough sleep every night is a fundamental necessity to
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Running header: Sleep deprivation University of Buffalo (SIM) (UB- SIM) Sleep Deprivation and its Effects Focusing on Effects on: Health‚ Performance and Cognitive Functions Tan Jing Wen Marius Tan Li Xuan Rayna Tan Mei Yu Teo Zi Wei Cheryl 16 Nov 2012 Abstract This paper is on the effects of sleep deprivation. The central research question of this paper is: What are the effects‚ according to recent literature‚ of sleep deprivation on someone’s health‚ performance
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The effects of Sleep Deprivation What is Sleep Deprivation? Physiological Effects 2.1 Diabetes 2.2 Effects on the Brain 2.3 Effects on the healing process 2.4 Attention and working memory 2.5 Impairment of ability. 2.6 Microsleeps 2.7 Weight gain/loss Sleep apnea Mental illness School Counteracting the effects of sleep deprivation Longest period without sleep Main Body Discussion How does sleep deprivation affect Your Mental and Physical Health? How to Recover from missed
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Sleep deprivation is one of the most widespread health complications in the world. There is a lack of adequate cautioning concerning its increase and prevalence in modern day society. An individual suffering from the lack of sleep has to contend with both short-term and long-term repercussions and is also at a higher risk of suffering from several types of disorders. The purpose of this essay‚ consequently‚ is to examine the causes and effects of sleep deprivation and offer recommendations on how
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EFFECTS OF SLEEP DEPRIVATION What is sleep? Is it just the period of time in which you rest? Is it nothing more than that? Sleep is a physical and mental state of rest in which a person becomes moderately inactive and unaware of the environment. Although our bodies are a picture of tranquility while we sleep‚ there are a numerous biochemical‚ physiological‚ and psychological events constantly taking place which we do not know about. There is an alarming lack of awareness about sleep in the medical
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Causes Of Sleep Deprivation Sleep is very important in our daily lives and we need about eight hours of sleep every night. Sleep helps the brain commit new information. When you have lack of sleep it is difficult to get up in the mornings‚ you feel sleepy throughout the day‚ and you’re just not feeling your best. Lifestyle is the biggest and most common cause of sleep deprivation. It affects the ability to sleep well in an individual’s life. Some people do not realize how their sleeping conditions
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Sleep Deprivation and Judgement In this journal‚ Kyoungmin Cho‚ Christopher M. Barnes‚ and Cristiano L. Guanara ‚ the researchers were performing a quasi experiment to see if there was a relation between judges being tired and sentencing those who enter the courtroom. The researchers came up with the hypothesis that sleep deprived judges would sentence a person who committed a crime to a longer sentence than a judge that was well rested. For them to conduct this quasi experiment they used judges
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Arabameri. “The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on Choice Reaction Time and Anaerobic Power of College Student Athletes." Asian J Sports Med (2012): 15- 20. Web. The purpose of this study was to find the effect of one night’s sleep deprivation of anaerobic performance and to see how well one reacts to subjects that following morning. The study included eighteen male college athletes and tested for peak power‚ mean power‚ and reaction time. The results of the testing showed that sleep serves as a function
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Joey Hernandez Boston ENGL 1301.6020 2 November 2012 The most beautiful thing on the earth… Sleep. Procrastination‚ the biggest downfall of the students across the educational world‚ many people joke on the subject‚ such as high schools throughout America claim to have a “procrastinators unite club” the joke being that the club is always uniting tomorrow. Every student has procrastinated at one point in their studies‚ whether it is last minute cramming for a big test or writing an explanatory
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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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