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Most people feel the heaviness of their eyelids pulling down over their eyes with force of gravity, feel the pressure of their body heaving down, and constant drumming thought of sleep in their head, but why does most of society choose to ignore
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People believe that by ignoring sleep and completing the task at hand, success will be achieved. What most people fail to realize is that the amount of hours and effort put into a task, such as studying, is important but, sleeping and allowing for the brain to rest is just as important as studying. In a student’s schedule, the correct balance of sleep, studying and activities has been proven to be the key of success. (Curico, Ferrara, & Gennaro, 2006) A correlation was made that students in a higher education, such as university, gets less amounts of sleep. Many people think it’s beneficial to complete the work load or study for a test rather than sleep, but what they fail to understand is the connections that are being made when sleeping. When asleep, the material being studied is permanently being encoded into the brain’s memory. Sleep has the ability to transfer new memories into the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for short-term memory, and be able to revive old decay memories from the neocortex (Rasch, Born, 2013). In other words, the hippocampus has the ability to work with short-term memories, while the neocortex uses the brain capacity to integrate memories into slow-learning storage. (Rasch, Born, 2013) The Hippocampus controls the brain’s activity to encode information through the process of routing the memories of information in …show more content…
Without sleep, the body starts to deteriorate piece by piece. Sleep loss causes major deterioration in cognitive and behavioral performance with in the mind, and the physical break down of the body. Having a lack of sleep blocks the brain’s ability to decipher between the right and wrong decision. A study was conducted proving that a lack of sleep can manipulate brain’s comprehension to surroundings and ability to adapt to the right decision. Manipulating and monitoring the sleep schedule of several intern doctors in residency training emphasized the importance of sleep. (Ellenbogen, 2005) Interns who worked on a tighter schedule with less hours of sleep made “36% more critical medical errors” than the interns working under a schedule that allowed more hours of sleep. (Ellenbogen, 2005) A lack of sleep also reduces a person’s ability to control their emotional state. Proven from the statics above, if the mental processing is hindered by a lack of sleep, then interactions with emotional support is bound to be hindered as well, because emotions and mental health are interdependent to each other. If a person is unable to make stable decisions, their emotional decisions are unstable as well. Many of the emotional instability can be observed and taken into wrong context. For example, Czeisler found that “Children become more hyperactive rather than sleepy when they don’t sleep [therefore they] have
People believe that by ignoring sleep and completing the task at hand, success will be achieved. What most people fail to realize is that the amount of hours and effort put into a task, such as studying, is important but, sleeping and allowing for the brain to rest is just as important as studying. In a student’s schedule, the correct balance of sleep, studying and activities has been proven to be the key of success. (Curico, Ferrara, & Gennaro, 2006) A correlation was made that students in a higher education, such as university, gets less amounts of sleep. Many people think it’s beneficial to complete the work load or study for a test rather than sleep, but what they fail to understand is the connections that are being made when sleeping. When asleep, the material being studied is permanently being encoded into the brain’s memory. Sleep has the ability to transfer new memories into the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for short-term memory, and be able to revive old decay memories from the neocortex (Rasch, Born, 2013). In other words, the hippocampus has the ability to work with short-term memories, while the neocortex uses the brain capacity to integrate memories into slow-learning storage. (Rasch, Born, 2013) The Hippocampus controls the brain’s activity to encode information through the process of routing the memories of information in …show more content…
Without sleep, the body starts to deteriorate piece by piece. Sleep loss causes major deterioration in cognitive and behavioral performance with in the mind, and the physical break down of the body. Having a lack of sleep blocks the brain’s ability to decipher between the right and wrong decision. A study was conducted proving that a lack of sleep can manipulate brain’s comprehension to surroundings and ability to adapt to the right decision. Manipulating and monitoring the sleep schedule of several intern doctors in residency training emphasized the importance of sleep. (Ellenbogen, 2005) Interns who worked on a tighter schedule with less hours of sleep made “36% more critical medical errors” than the interns working under a schedule that allowed more hours of sleep. (Ellenbogen, 2005) A lack of sleep also reduces a person’s ability to control their emotional state. Proven from the statics above, if the mental processing is hindered by a lack of sleep, then interactions with emotional support is bound to be hindered as well, because emotions and mental health are interdependent to each other. If a person is unable to make stable decisions, their emotional decisions are unstable as well. Many of the emotional instability can be observed and taken into wrong context. For example, Czeisler found that “Children become more hyperactive rather than sleepy when they don’t sleep [therefore they] have