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    Fall Asleep Faster Tonight with These 7 Easy Tips! Tossing and turning as you try to fall asleep is no fun, especially when you’ve got a big day ahead of you. While sleepless nights happen on occasion for just about everyone, reducing your insomnia can be achieved by giving these sleep strategies shared by The Huffington Post a try: 1. Consider you health: If you’ve been having groggy mornings or experiencing serious daytime sleepiness, your low energy may be health-related. Talk to your…

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    Maria Konnikova’s article “Snoozers Are, in Fact, Losers” examines the relationship between humans’ biological and social sleep; in other words, how do humans’ natural circadian rhythm conflict with their routine? Konnikova claims that it is better to wake up naturally than to hit the snooze button. Waking up after having just fallen back asleep is detrimental to one’s ability to perform basic functions as well as one’s long term health. The act of waking up suddenly causes sleep inertia; when…

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    Insomnia Research Paper

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    Have you ever received a low amount of sleep at night and felt irritated, tired, distracted, and stressed? This is how patients who are diagnosed with Insomnia Disorder feel. Adults need up to 8 hours of sleep per night, due to their health and ability to function. Insomnia Disorder makes it difficult for one to maintain the required hours of sleep. Sufficient sleep is a healthy human need (Ehrlich, 2016), without it daily functioning becomes a struggle. Insomnia is the most frequently reported…

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    Midnight Sleep Module 7

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    Though there are many things that I have learned after reading through 11 chapters of the textbook, the module that stands out to me the most is the 7th. Module 7 is about sleep and dreams and it’s actually quite fascinating to read about. It pretty much explained everything from the basic biology of sleeping all the way through how dreams have to do with personal life. There is a difference between sleeping and dreaming and you don’t need one to have the other. Dreaming while not sleeping is…

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    I have a love-hate relationship with sleep. I love it but it hates me. Typically, I have no problem falling asleep. I have trouble staying asleep. I wake up numerous times throughout the night. Any little noise wakes me up. I usually remember waking up three or four times a night. These are the times I have trouble going back to sleep. My husband says I wake up 10 or 12 times throughout the night. Most days, I wake up feeling tiered. It is a good day when I don’t wake up tiered. Occasionally, I…

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    Circadian Rhythm – a cycle that tells the body when to rise, sleep, eat which regulates many physiological processes. The internal body clock is affected by cues. Like sunrise and temperature. According to Professor Russell Foster in 2007, an Oxford University Neurologist said that student would gain more if their classes start in the afternoon. Forcing a student who arrives in the morning could be a result of poor memory and stress. He also added that teenager's body clocks between two hours…

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    The Importance of Having a Later Start to the School Day Nearly all students that I have spoken to would agree to a later start. Test scores would sky rocket if administrators voted on a later start to the day. The idea of starting later is solid and beneficial to the students, mainly because students get to sleep longer. And who doesn't like sleep? But there are downsides, and that is the fact that students have later practice times. Nevertheless, I would agree to a later start to the day…

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    is the principal conductor and regulator of the endocrine system. Furthermore, another essential process that the pineal gland undergoes is the secretion of melatonin, an autacoid hormone that controls the body’s circadian rhythm. Aside from controlling the body’s natural circadian rhythm, melatonin is used to cure many different conditions including radiation exposure, Alzheimer’s disease, and tinnitus. Also, Melatonin also regulates the rate at which humans age and how well our immune system…

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    HPA Axis and Stress Introduction Stress is a common occurrence for many if not all people and animals. Stress can be increased or decreased in different situations or if there are certain situations that can induce stress. The reaction caused by stress is largely impacted by the hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis which makes the body aware of the stressor. The mind sends signals to the endocrine, nervous, and immune systems to tell them to react in a way that is proper for the specific…

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    We all have a “sleep clock” in our brain, abnormalities related to this clock are called circadian rhythm disorders. These disorders include jet lag, adjusting to shift work, delayed sleep phase syndrome (waking up too late), and advanced sleep phase syndrome (waking up too early). Insomnia is often a temporary disorder that may be caused by stress…

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