Gallop rhythm

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…

The Circadian Rhythm is your internal biological clock. It is how your body naturally reacts to the 24 hour day. When the morning approaches, your body temperature will rise and peak during the day, as the day comes to an end your temperature will lower. Last summer, sensing how close I was to college and knowing I would be in desperate need of money I decided to do what most students do, get a job. Luckily for me my local Target Superstore was hiring and after an application and a couple…

Although increasing efforts to lessen sleep deprivation for teenagers may lengthen the amount of sleep that students get, there will always be students who, despite later school start times and a lighter load of homework, still fail to get enough sleep. This may be due to their own procrastination or simply the speed at which they need to work to grasp the content presented to them. In order to help these students, households and schools can easily implement inexpensive, additional policies to…

Classification of Sleep Disorders Sleep is important for a person to become healthy the average amount of sleep is about 8 hours. Unfortunately more than half, America is diagnosed with a sleeping disorder making the average time to exceed, decline, or in some cases to not exist. Sleeping disorders are on a spectrum ranging from deadly to not harmful, so if a sleep disorder is not harmful then why is it a disorder? A sleep disorder manipulates someone’s sleep pattern affecting their health.…

drowsiness while behind the wheel. Out of those one hundred thousand crashes, there ends up being near fifteen hundred deaths. People should not have to worry about falling asleep at the wheel an hour after they wake up. Insomnia stems from allergies, rhythm change, as well as anxiety. Everyone goes through times once in their life where they lay in bed all night without getting any sleep. Insomnia can get the best of everyone at any time.…

The Circadian clock which is the 24h day and night cycle is having an effect on the psychological activity of all organisms. These processes involve activities such as the wave pattern of the brain, melatonin, and other biological aspects. Melatonin is a hormone in the brain that helps our body to control the sleep and wake cycles. A small portion of it can be found in some certain food such as meat and fruits. Our internal “clock” in our bodies that controls the sleep and wake cycles can also…

Sophia yells “I can’t fall asleep.” Her mom says to herself “here we go again”. It is one those night that her nine year old is standing by her mother 's bedside late at night because she having trouble falling asleep. As her mother ask what’s wrong, Sophia responds that she cannot stop thinking about what happened today. Although Sophia start over think everything from to what happened in school, and to what was on the news that day this is one of the most common symptoms for insomnia. Sophia…

In 2015, 56% of Americans did not get the right amount of sleep they needed at night (Better Sleep Foundation). Sleep plays an important part in keeping the human body healthy and happy. Not getting enough sleep affects how the body functions in many ways. Understanding the amount of sleep people need, what regulates the amount of sleep a person gets, and how sleep affects a person 's health, is very important to the human body. Most people do not know the amount of sleep needed at night.…

Adolescent Sleep Patterns and High School Start Times The question of whether or not to delay the start times of high school has been debated and it is clear that there are both advantages and disadvantages. There are certainly benefits to making school start times later, particularly in regards to the behavioural and mental effects on the students. However, there is also the social and economic side to consider, as changes in the start time plague these areas with issues. Even though both sides…

Records produced some of the most talented artist during this time such as Isaac Hayes, Carla Thomas, Rufus Tomas, and many more. Otis Redding was considered the heartbeat of Stax Records. During the 60s this type of music was called “race music.” Rhythm and blues and soul was called race music because it was a subliminal message to the fellow African Americans. Songs such as Respect by Otis Redding, and later Aretha Franklin, were trying to encourage their African American audience to respect…