Circadian rhythm

Hypersomnia Research Paper Khamia Melvin Amanda. Warren Honors Biology November 19, 2015 Khamia Melvin A.Warran Honors Biology November 19, 2015 Hypersomnia Excessively tired, Frequent naps throughout the day? Sounds a…

1. After so many researches, scientists have discovered that for adults, we need to sleep at least 8 hours. Sleep is associated with our health and life duration, lack of sleep can cause so many health issues in our body. It will mostly affect our physical and mental health. As a student, sometimes it's hard to get 8 hours of sleep every day, because I am really busy. During my weekdays, I do my best to sleep 7 hours, meanwhile during the weekend I can get 8 or 9 hours. My strategies to get…

Sleep, it helps people perform their daily tasks. It is also very helpful with making people more focused and keep people well - rested. Napping is also a somewhat good way of recharging the body and increase mental alertness. Both of these I think are important because they both keep you from getting cranky. So let me elaborate. First off, sleep helps people perform their daily tasks whether it be a job or going to school. Whatever it might be, we humans need energy to focus on important…

July-Day 18 I can barely pull myself out of bed today, it's cold outside the blankets that have kept me safe since my descent to dreamland where I have been since 6:30 PM. I've slept for 12 hours and I want to keep sleeping. I want to stay in bed where nothing happens to any extremes. I dreamt of lighthouses and the light it casts out over the clear blue gulf sending a signal of safety to those passing by. I wonder about all the things that are like lighthouses to me. I think of the time Alex…

When I read this week’s assignment for the 2 page paper, I was really excited. From the website given I chose sleep disorders and restless leg syndrome as my two topics. I chose sleep disorders, because it has always interested me. I chose restless leg syndrome, because my dad has it. He suffers from it almost every night. I would love to learn more about it to be able to help him. There are many common sleep disorders. Most of them can be caused by stress, physical health, emotional health,…

Sleep is essential for all human beings like oxygen. It helps to refresh body and mind after working throughout the day. However, lots of people suffer from sleep disturbance. Most of them are aware of the fact that insufficient sleep can cause physical and psychological problems. But, the causes behind their disturbed sleep are ambiguous to them. They are unaware that their everyday behaviour, some personal choices or any underlying physical illness could be one of the major causes of sleep…

Some people may think that they have insomnia because they have trouble sleeping at night or they feel as if they can’t sleep at all. Insomnia is a complicated condition in which falling asleep or staying asleep is difficult. The word insomnia is Latin and means “no sleep”. Waking up often and having trouble going back to sleep characterize it. There are two types of insomnia, primary and secondary insomnia, in primary this means that an individual is having problems sleeping but it is not…

Have any of you very sleepy and do not know why? You came to the right place. A Third of Life by Paul Martin, Improving Sleep by Lawrence Epstein, and Sleep Debt and the Mortgaged Mind by William C. Dement & Christopher Vaughan introduces the concept of sleep. Many people regard sleeping just waking up in the morning and going back to sleep at night, and feeling really tired around the afternoon, but sleep is more complicated than that. Sleep is what is going around your body physically and what…

Bed rest is defined as confinement to a bed as part of treatment with restriction of activity. In other terms, bed rest simply means that a patient is stuck in bed for a period of time without getting to do day to day activities as part of a treatment plan. In The Bed Rest Hoax, Kleeman describes multiple cases of patients that have negative effects due to best rest and overall thoughts about this topic, both pros and cons. However, bed rest is not the best option for women (and men) due to a…

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