Inadequate quantity or quality of sleep‚ including voluntary or involuntary sleeplessness and circadian rhythm sleep disorders increases the chance that children and adolescents who attend school have a tendency to fall asleep or become sleepy while at school. It has been found that ‘chronic sleep loss affects many aspects of adolescents lives and that there are repercussions of unhealthy sleep habit.’ (Owens‚ J‚ 2013). Chronic sleep loss is very serious and affects school children because the pupils
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the correlational method as a means for examining the relationship between 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
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source that supports why it is bad for you. Be sure to include the link to the website. For example‚ you might find a website that shows drinking too much soda can help cause diabetes. Without a healthy sleep routine this may result in Circadian rhythm sleep disorders. This disorder is sleeping less during the week‚ and later during the weekend. Source: http://sleepcenter.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=63 3. Write down one thing from Lasting Zone and explain why it is good for you. Locate one
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part of the ____B_______ theory of sleep. a. Adaptive b. Restorative c. REM d. Parasomnia 7. Our bodies tend to operate on a general 24-hour cycle called a _____C________‚ which is regulated by the hypothalamus. a. Sleep Spindle b. Circadian Rhythm c. Light/Dark Cycle d. Selective Attention 8. A person who experiences momentary wakefulness in the middle of the night due to a disruption in his or her breathing pattern may suffer from ____D_________. a. Insomnia b. Narcolepsy
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The homeostasis of our bodies largely depends on a good night’s sleep and anything that disturbs this period of rest can have detrimental effects to our health. Insufficient sleep can lead to problems with cognitive function‚ mood disturbances‚ decreased energy which can further impair occupational performance and quality of life. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition‚ Text Revision‚ the prevalence of insomnia can be viewed in four ways; as insomnia
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Running head: Sleep Deprivation‚ Disorders and Drugs Sleep Deprivation‚ Disorders and Drugs Axia College of University of Phoenix There was a time when I was not getting sleep; it affected almost every aspect of my being and definitely my personality. Reading the text written by Pinel‚ I realize many of the descriptions of sleeplessness fit those very memorable‚ yet miserable days. My opinion on my reaction to sleeplessness concurred fairly well with the text‚ though I did not consider myself
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that attempt to address the purpose of sleep and sleep habits: recuperation and circadian. Recuperation theory works off the principle that sleep restores the body to a state of and sleep renovates energy levels. Recuperation theorists believe that the very act of being woken causes one to become tired and sleep deficiency may cause developmental disorders so that we sleep until the body is physiologically sound. Circadian theorists believe that we become tired when it gets dark outside‚ the function
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three to five periods of REM sleep occur per night that happen between time intervals of one to two hours (Wolf-Meyer‚ 2012). REM sleep is important because of its restorative aspect in sleep cycles. A disturbance in this will put a person’s normal circadian sleep cycle or known as our “inner clock” out of place. To compensate for this‚ lengthy periods of REM sleep is needed because if it were to continue‚ lack of concentration would follow. Sleep cycle is related to sleepwalking because it is likely
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When You Just Can’t Stop Falling Asleep: Narcolepsy Symptoms and Diagnosis Narcolepsy is a neurological sleep disorder caused by the brain’s inability to properly coordinate the body’s sleep (circadian) rhythms. Narcoleptics fall asleep at peculiar times or they crave sleep more than what is considered normal. Narcolepsy is one of the rarest sleep disorders. The sleep patterns of narcolepsy sufferers are off base and they can crave or fall asleep at odd hours. Imagine how dangerous that would be
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at night can suppress an important hormone called melatonin which spreads nighttime information through your body. “When we use these devices before getting ready for bed‚ they suppress the nightly release of melatonin in the brain and shift our circadian clock. Melatonin is the hormone that helps you fall asleep and stay asleep” (Tech Timeout para 4). In other words‚ using technology can decrease the amount of melatonin in our body‚ making it harder to fall asleep. This is critical because the next
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