"A good night’s sleep can make or break your day"(Geisler). Getting at least eight hours of sleep per night is important to anyone’s health. Studies show that a person that gets eight or more hours of sleep per night performs better in school than a person that gets less than eight hours of sleep. A person that gets more sleep also has a healthier heart‚ less stress and a reduced risk of diabetes. Getting the recommended amount of sleep can improve a person’s memory‚ help control body weight issues
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High school is stressful as it is and when we don’t get to sleep well at night it’s even more stressful. Then wake up early the next day it’s hard for someone to focus completely. Having hours of homework‚ doing chores‚ and just spending time with family after school can’t be done .When you have to go to bed early and wake up at six o’clock the next day. If students would be able to get at least one more hour of sleep it would decrease many health issues‚ attendances issues ‚accidents and maybe even
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Much Is Enough? • The amount of sleep that a healthy individual needs is largely determined by two factors: genetics and age. Genetics plays a role in both the amount of sleep a person needs‚ as well as his or her preference for waking up early (these are the so-called "larks‚" or morning-type individuals) or staying up late (these are the "owls‚" or evening-type people). Our internal biological clock‚ which regulates the cycling of many functions including the sleep/wake cycle‚ can vary slightly from
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Self-study Questions – Sleep and Rest Answers to these study questions can be found in Potter & Perry‚ Kee‚ and Taber’s dictionary. 1. Briefly describe the 4 stages of Non-rapid Eye Movement (NREM) sleep. · Stage 1: NREM -Stage lasts a few minutes. It includes lightest level of sleep. Decreased physiological activity begins with gradual fall in vital signs and metabolism. Sensory stimuli such as noise easily arouses person. Awakened‚ person feels as though daydreaming has occurred. · Stage
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Do you think you could get a decent amount of sleep? A person with sleep apnea does this but doesn’t even know it. How is this possible? Sleep apnea is a medical disorder and if not treated can have serious risks of not getting enough sleep. “Sleep Apnea refers to repeated periods during sleep when a person stops breathing for 10 seconds or longer. The person may repeatedly stop breathing‚ momentarily wake up‚ resume breathing‚ and return to sleep. Repeated awakenings during the night result in
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Revision Notes: Sleep Specification * Nature of sleep‚ including sleep stages and lifespan changes and lifespan changes in sleep. * Functions of sleep‚ including evolutionary explanations and restoration theory. Nature of sleep * Sleep is a different state of consciousness where responsiveness to the external environment is diminished. * It occurs daily as circadian rhythms and is composed of an Ultradian cycle of separate stages. * With the intention of the electroencephalograph
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REM sleep and memory. I will describe previous research and then investigate how REM and memory are associated in young people and in older people. In some ways‚ the sleep patterns of these two groups are very similar‚ but in some ways they are not. 1a. REM sleep normally happens in an hour after fall asleep and usually lasting about 30 minutes. People fall in the non-REM sleep in three stages which is the most time during the sleep. As the night goes on‚ the least deep sleep and deepest sleep stages
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Sleep Deprivation‚ Disorders‚ and Drugs JoAnna Gonzales PSY/240 August‚ 18‚ 2013 Dean J. Marzofka Sleep Deprivation‚ Disorders‚ and Drugs Some people may not be aware of the effects or causes of sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation can affect one’s moods‚ behaviors‚ cognitive‚ and motor skills. The lack of sleep may be the result of one’s environment‚ a sleep disorder‚ or perhaps certain drugs. To gain a better understanding of sleep deprivation‚ we will examine the different sleep stages‚ common
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An under appreciated driving hazard is the lack of sleep. In fact‚ many people are cavalier about driving while fatigued. Although driving under the influence of alcohol carries much social stigma‚ the same can’t be said of driving when tired. Yet both forms of impairment are equally dangerous and cause too many fatalities on our roads and highways. The Dangerous State of Micro-Sleep Is it possible to force yourself to stay awake by continually drinking coffee‚ playing loud music‚ and using truck
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long day at work you close your eyes and doze off to sleep you sleep as normal but then you begin to wake up and you open your eyes and you are completely aware of what’s is going on but you are unable to move. you begin to become frighten and attempt to cry out for help but you are unable to say a word and as you began to lay there you start to see strange and nightmare things that feel so real‚ this scary experience is called sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon in which a person will find
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