Articles about sleep

FIRST ARTICLE

Judith A. Owens, M.D M.P.H of the Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence, and colleagues, contributed Rhode Island high schools to a new study about delay of school start time. School was delayed one hour students that got 8 hours increased from 35.7 to 50%, then students who got at least 9 hours of sleep also increased from 6.3 to 10.8%. The delay also contributed to drop the percentage of teen car accidents because kids are more awake and have less possibilities to crash. After this study students had to make a survey of their sleep habits and the majority of the students were angry about the school start time and felt annoyed and unhappy during the day. (from 65.8 to 45.1 students) I think that this study is really interesting because it shows how only 30 minutes can change the mood of a teenager and can drop rates of car accidents enourmosely. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215074351.htm 1995-2010 ScienceDaily LLC

SECOND ARTICLE

This article from the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology published on October 26, 2010 talks about how the lack of sleep affects us differently. 12 to 38% of those with gene variant are considered healthy sleepers. To make the study 92 healthy adults without the gene variant were compared to 37 healthy adults who had the gene variant but did not have any sleep disorders, those with gene variant woke up twice as many times as those whitout the gene variant during the 5 days they were examined. I think this study proves us that some people can be moody without their 8 or more hours of sleep and some people are more active. It also proves to us that people with the gene variation sleeps less than those without the gene variation and those with the gene variation also sleep uncomfortable while others sleep deeply. 

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025161023.htm 1995-2010 ScienceDaily LLC  

THIRD ARTICLE

On June 9, at Sleep 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies was proved that students that are more alert and do their best during later in the day get a poor amount and quality of sleep and bad alertness. Some results show that students that are more active at late day lowered their college GPA to 2.84 than those who are active in the morning which have a college GPA of 3.18. Students show a big decrease between their transition from high school to college. I think that this report shows that if a student does not get enough amount of sleep a night before class they are going to be different and it is possible that their lack of sleep may affect their GPA because of the way their brains are working and their body is processing everything.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090609072813.htm 1995-2010 ScienceDaily LLC