Rhythm

A BADGE OF HONOR? “Our society seems to place a moral value on sleeping as little as possible… . Saying ‘I’m tired and I’m going to sleep’ is viewed as being lazy.” Sleep research Dr. Eve Van Cauter (Brody) provided this adequate description of how our high demand, 24 hours a day, seven days a week world, is robbing substantial numbers of people of sleep. For many Americans “inadequate sleep is a workaholic’s badge of honor” (Brink). We proudly pin on our badge of sleep deprivation and polish…

chronic sleep disorders. The word somnology includes study of human sleep and its irregularities. A step to furthering research would include Chronobiology, or the study of the circadian sleep functions and disorders. Circadian sleep functions or “rhythms”, are mental, physical, and…

found that the breast cancer risk of women who worked the night shift for four years was especially clear, as well as those who only worked the night shift for three or fewer nights a week (meaning their daily rhythms were disturbed more often. The fact is that because your heart rhythms are off you have a higher chance of having a heart attack. Just like not having an enough sleep which can cause sleep deprivation which can have an impact of work safety and the ability to drive home after…

On Saturday, June 25, 2005 in London, England, a fifteen-year old girl left her house and went straight up to a construction. She climbed a 130-foot crane. She wasn’t afraid, not careless; she was just asleep. Luckily, a man was passing when he saw her, he immediately call the authorities. After that a firefighter came and helped her get down after waking her up.1 This can demonstrate the amazing incidents that can happen while we sleep. Some of you may ask yourselves how can this happen? The…

Food, music, clothes, language, they all have one thing in common having to be an influence that African American Communities have in the United States.The background story of African American in North America started as enslaved Africans brought to North America and forced into working as free labors. Coming into a continent completely different from what Africans were used to, they were forced to adapt to the western world. Working as free labors, Africans had a huge impact on the economy of…

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…

(1) Introduction to the research area: In this era there are many ways attributes to health are recorded on our new and advance technology such as the amount of steps you walk, the running distance you cover, the calories you burn and many other beneficial health considerations. But what millions of people in North America have a serious problem with, is the ability to not get proper sleep and most don’t realize how detrimental that affects ones health. This could be a result of a lack of…

is inactive and the muscles are relaxed. Why do we sleep when we do? Humans tend to sleep 5-8 hours every night, and to do so in a pattern tied to the 24-hour light-darkness cycle. This cycle is called a circadian rhythm which means ‘about a day’. It is a naturally occurring body rhythm that occurs in a 24-hour cycle. Sleep is not the only cycle that is considered to be circadian however. There are other cycles like attentiveness, eating, body temperature and blood…

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.…

paper was very challenging yet interesting as the brain mechanism behind sleep and insomnia is very complex. In order to better this complex mechanism, we first need to understand the two processes that regulate the sleep-wake cycle, the circadian rhythm controls alertness, wakefulness level and it is regulated by the internal biological or circadian clock. Indeed, the circadian clock controls how much melatonin the body makes. Melatonin is a hormone known to trigger sleep. The Melatonin level…