Sleep Deprivation and Academic Performance Essay

How important is your sleep to you? If you respond that you do not believe that it is, you might want to reconsider your response. Sleep is not only important to you mentally, but it can affect your health and learning. Your sleep cycle is divided up into four stages which include; light sleep, sleep spindles, and delta waves. Each of these stages are equally important and each serve a specific purpose for your body and mind. The first R&K stage of sleep is known as light sleep. Categorized as…

This paper will critically analyze the content of Use and Success of Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Strategies for Sleep Problems by Homsey & O’Connell. It will identify strengths and weaknesses of this quantitative research study while discussing the implications the results may serve for nursing evidence-based practice use. The purpose was clearly defined as a compare and contrast of the perceived relief from pharmacologic and nonpharmacological methods for patients suffering from…

nighter, barely functioning, or one of the few that got a good night’s sleep? About 90% of high school students across the entire US get less than eight hours of sleep per night. That would mean that in this class, only two people got a minimum of eight hours of sleep last night. Our 7:35 AM school wake up call goes against the natural clock of a teenager. With those early alarms come the dangers of being sleep deprived. Being sleep deprived can have harmful, and sometimes fatal, effects on your…

affect their health. School should start later because it interferes with sleep and leads to higher rates of obesity, depression and motor-vehicle accidents among teens. School should start later because of sleep deprivation. Sadly, teens are getting enough sleep because school is starting very early. According to TheAtlantic.com, “Both the CDC and the pediatricians’ group cited significant risks that come with lack of sleep, including higher rate of obesity”(Richmond). Therefore, teens who do…

Sleep is a fundamental piece of human life and life in general, however, to a college student sleep becomes a luxury that has the value of precious jewels and metals. Sleep plays a part in the rejuvenation of the body as well as playing a part in learning only to further justify the importance of sleep to a college student. As an enrolled student who has a sixteen-hour credit load sleep is something important to me so actually observing the hours that I sleep and analyzing my sleep patterns was…

Patients with sleep apnea, a sleep disorder characterized by intermittent episodes of hypoxia (CIH), are at an increased risk for cardiovascular problems. CIH leads to a long lasting augmentation of respiratory and sympathetic motor output after the cessation of CIH, a phenomena termed long-term facilitation (LTF). LTF is a serotonin dependent mechanism. Additionally, serotonergic neurons in the raphe nuclei receive dense projections from orexin (OX) neurons; thus OX may contribute to the…

Another chair flew across the room while you laugh with glee at Soldier 76's rage. "Let me see you! I can feel that your here moving my things, frying my electronics. I can hear your laughter. Your empty words of sympathy to comfort me.. Show yourself or leave!" You rematerialize enough to appear but remain transparent. "Why should I give you the gift of peace when all you gave me was pain?". Jack had snatched you away from your home one night when you were sleeping. You woke up screaming…

the morning trying to get ready and not to be late. People have said that some people don’t get a good breakfast or you don’t eat because you don’t have time to in the morning and you can’t wake up early then u will be tired and then u will go to sleep in school. Also is parents in the morning they there kids to the bus stop and then they get behind the bus and the bus has to stop at a lot of stops and they can’t get around it so that causes the to be late for work. In the morning you need time…

the brain. Mental disorders are the only thing that stands in the way of someone being able to fully use their brain. Have you ever had trouble sleeping? Seems like you have tried almost everything, but you feel like you still have not gotten enough sleep. Maybe you have a sleeping disorder. There are around 70 different types of sleeping disorders. Not all are considered to be dangerous. There are millions of people who suffer from the most common disorder which is snoring. Some of the most…

studies to show that the average teenager needs a total of 8.8-9.5 hours of rest in order for them to function properly throughout the day. These early school days are causing middle and high school students, like me, to experience shifts in our natural sleep cycles. Our bodies’ inner clocks make it hard for us to go to bed before 10:30 or 11:00 p.m. Not only due to outside distractions, but primarily due to the large amounts of homework that we receive on a daily basis. The average teenager’s…