Sleep apnea

Sleep determines the health and well being of a person 's live and is a necessity to perform well in school and to be effective at work. Not enough rest can affect people’s mood and ability to learn and keep information. Amongst all of those who do not get enough sleep, college students are several of them. According to research, sleep plays an important role for learning in these students lives. Most college students do not get enough sleep due to a immense amount of school work, job work, and…

Ever since I was young I have always happened to find myself being the black sheep of the flock; I was always the one left out, the odd one of the group. I was the youngest of my two brothers and also happened to be the quietest. Growing up wasn’t easy for my family and I since my mother was a single mother of 3 and had no one else to support her. You might be thinking “what about your father?” well my mother left him right before I was born due to the fact that he was abusive to my mother and…

to American academy of sleep medicine (American academy of sleep medicine, 2010), circadian rhythm sleep disorders (CRSD) results from timing when a person is awake and when sleeps. Humans have an internal clocks in the brain called suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), where primary circadian rhythm help control the body sleep-wake cycle. This circadian clock is set by visual stimulation using light and darkness using the eyes and guides. Some examples of circadian rhythm sleep disorders are…

is not the darkness that scares me so much, it is being in a room alone, in the dark, with open doors. Whether it is my bathroom door, closet door, or room door, they all have to be shut tightly and my main room door must be locked. I also have to sleep against the wall so I know nothing can creep up behind me. In a sense I feel silly and paranoid but doing these actions give me a sense of safety. Maybe I watched too many movies growing up about monsters, murders, and kidnappings. Every night…

derived from the material world, because it is free of the necessity to follow the correspondence theory of truth” (17). Thus, he created a “universe,” so to speak, where his wife no longer exists. Rip literally imagined away his wife. Moreover, Rip sleeps through American’s most defining historical moment and he doesn’t care. Rip’s escape in the woods was about freeing himself; therefore, the American Revolution does not concern him. As far as Rip is concerned, he only needs freedom from his…

the point where she gets regular sleep and enjoys trying new foods. Her health and motor development needed steady work but now has progressed. All of her behaviors are based off my choices as a parent and by comparing her to the average child I can see if she meets the typical patterns of development through the first eighteen months. With this in mind, the first thing I noticed that changed with Delilah was her sleep. When she was three months old, her sleep pattern was six hours a night…

Vanessa Ruiz: The spellbinding art of human anatomy Ruiz explains the history of anatomical drawings, their main and vital medical purpose, as well as the artistic quality that has been seen time and time again. This talk explained the idea that the drawings are not just for scientific purposes, but also art because of the emotions they demand from people; curiosity, joy, disgust. She says that “fear of anatomy and guts is a learned reaction”. This is proven by a particularly interesting artist…

Imagine falling asleep as one person one night, then the next morning, you are a completely different person. You do not know who you are anymore. This is what happened to poor Charlie Gordon. The scientific fiction short story “Flowers for Algernon” is written by Daniel Keyes in the mid 1900’s. It is about a man that is 37 years old named Charlie, who has difficulty writing and reading, and anything that requires a fair amount of intelligence overall. After hearing about his fairly low IQ, two…

The girl woke up as she heard a scream, a scream so loud she have never heard before yet, she was familiar with the sound. As her senses woke up in the pitch black house the sound got more and more familiar. Was It mom? She put on her morning robe and ran down the stairs. It was raining and on top of that, thunder. When she was close to the kitchen she heard another shout coming from the master bedroom upstairs. It was her mom’s own voice coming from the bedroom. Honey, did you hear that? When…

Chapter One: Yesterday and Today “Another day just like yesterday.” I mumbled as stuck my toothbrush in between my dry jaws. As I brushed my teeth, the doorbell rang. Who could it be this early in the morning? No way could there be a surprise visit from my girlfriend or anybody. I was a single man working in a big city where my family had died. With a step to the side and a turn, I reached the door of my tiny one-room apartment. Peeping through the eyehole, I saw two man in black suit with…