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• PARENTS AND SLEEP DEPRIVATION .
• But first lets discuss sleep deprivation. ...
• If you are not getting enough sleep, your body will let you cope but you will slowly lose performance and if you do not catch up on that missing sleep you will get what is called a Sleep Debt. This is when you need to catch up on a lot of sleep because you have not been quite getting enough each night. When you have sleep debt, apart from looking terrible in the mirror, you will have other symptoms. ... If the sleep debt gets worse the symptoms get worse. ...
• This means that if you are being woken up regularly each night, then your sleep is being disrupted and you are not getting the required quality of sleep that each device needs. ...
• So, they just move over and try to get back to sleep. ... For example, when or if you can go back to sleep. Have you noticed how most children end up in bed at right angles to any adult in the same bed? Has anyone ever been able to sleep in a child like that? I haven’t. ...
• So what should we do about the situation? Well first lets recognise that with sleep deprivation we are probably not going to be the most calm, cool and collected parents on the block. ...
• In the morning you may wish to congratulate and reward them for going back to sleep when you put them in their bed. ...
• Of course, this is pretty hard when you yourself are suffering sleep deprivation, but the alternative to not addressing the problem is to have the problem around for a long, long time. ...

• Sleep Deprivation: Effects on Safety, Health and the Quality of Life.
• National Sleep Foundation (NSF) reports that 63 percent of American adults don't receive the recommended 8 hours of sleep necessary for good health, safety and optimum performance. ... Daniel O'Hearn, a Johns Hopkins University sleep disorders specialist observed, "People don't respect sleep enough. They feel they can do more – have more time for work and family – by allowing themselves less time for sleep. ...
•                 Sleep Deprivation and Safety Effects.
• Sleep deprivation instigates serious industrial accidents. "Sleep deprivation can reduce attention and vigilance by 50 percent, decision-making ability by 5 0percent, communication skills by 30 percent, and memory by 20 percent, says Mark Rosekind, board member of the NSF and president and chief scientist at Alertness Solutions. ...
• ) The National Transportation Safety Board has traced the 1989 Exxon Va/dez Alaskan oil spill to the severe fatigue of the tanker's sleep-deprived third mate (he'd slept for only six hours of the previous 48). ...
• The worker is forced to fight the natural wake-sleep pattern and is prone to less sleep, ultimately needed to help restore and rejuvenate the brain and body. ...
• ) Drivers, Fatigue and Safety: Studies have affirmed that sleep-deprived drivers are just as dangerous as drunk drivers. ...
• Based on these statistics, reducing the extent of the sleep-deprived driver problem is certainly crucial to improving the safety of U. ... ) In a test of reaction times, people who were tired because of disrupted sleep performed about as poorly as the legally drunk subjects, new Stanford research reports. ...
• Herein is the crux of the problem related to fatigue and the workplace: the lack of public awareness and consequential actions taken by industry leaders to address sleep deprivation's serious effects on safety, health and in tandem, the overall quality of life.
• Sleep Deprivation and Health Effects.
• A 2001 NSF survey draws attention to several medical conditions linked directly to sleep deprivation, including depression (83 percent), nighttime heartburn (82 percent), diabetes (81 percent), hypertension (79 percent), and heart disease (78 percent). In addition, sleep deprivation can accelerate the aging process, lead to obesity and increase the risk of memory loss. The British Medical Association also reaffirms the higher levels of stress, anxiety and depression among the sleep-deprived. ...

• Naps and modafinil as countermeasures for the effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance .
• Disruptions in wake-sleep rhythms, particularly induced by sleep deprivation are limiting factors for military personnel in operations. The role of sleep and naps in the recovery of performance is generally accepted. ... Modafinil, which combines wakening and stimulating properties without any known side effects, was useful for longer periods of sleep deprivation and when there was no real possibility of sleep recovery. Modafinil did not prevent sleep if sleep opportunities were available. The combination of naps and modafinil demonstrated the best cognitive performance during sleep deprivation.
•   modafinil  in obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome.
•   modafinil  for daytime sleepiness in sleep apnea.
•   modafinil  and naps as counter measures in sleep deprivation.
•   modafinil  use in a sleep deprivation experiment.

• Article: Combating Sleep Deprivation One Night at a Time - by Reg Furlough.
• As young adults, people decide they are no longer bound by the need for a good night's sleep. It is assumed the maturing of the body guarantees the body can withstand missed sleep --- after all, it is part of being an adult.
• However, medical science is telling us more and more that sleep deprivation, or feeling sleep deprived, shouldn't be a badge of honor.
• Medical researchers who study sleep and sleep disorders are producing volumes of evidence to prove the importance of a good night's sleep and the dangers of sacrificing sleep in the cause of adulthood.
• Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, "speculate that the brain is adversely affected by sleep deprivation because certain patterns of electrical and chemical activity that occur .
• during sleep are interrupted, impeding the brain's ability to function normally. ...
• , MD, medical director of the Kathryn Severyns Dement Sleep Disorder Center in Walla Walla, Wash. ...
• just a few of the effects brought on by a lack of sleep. ...
• THE IMPORTANCE OF SLEEP TO GOOD HEALTH.
• According to a recent study sponsored by The National Institutes of Health and Penn State College of Medicine, losing as little as one or two hours of sleep a night can have adverse effects on your health:.
• Jake Mossman, states in his article 'A Lack of Sleep Can Affect Your Health':.
• "The lack of sleep results in lower production of killer T-cells that fight off viruses and may result in more illness. ...
• Suddenly the thought of missing a couple of hours of sleep appears in a whole new light, doesn't it?.
• SLEEP LOSS PREVENTION IS THE BEST MEDICINE.
• The first step towards preventing sleep deprivation is understanding its causes. Late night parties are not the only reason for missed sleep.

• Sleep deprivation.
• Question: I am studying the effects of sleep deprivation, have any advice? Ester G Beiler Answer: Sure, try going without sleep for a few days. ... see what it's like! It's one of the few experiments you can do by yourself with no special equipment! You could check your reaction to certain stimuli as a function of lack of sleep: measuring reaction time is a classic experiment. ...

• sleep deprivation and seizures.
• Is there a correlation between sleep deprivation and seizures? I have always had trouble falling asleep, and sometimes I will spend the whole night awake even if I'm lying in bed and trying to sleep. ...
• RE: sleep deprivation and seizures .
• RE: sleep deprivation and seizures .

• Effects of Partial and Total Sleep Deprivation On Driving Performance.
• Accidents due to driver sleepiness, caused by sleep deprivation or drug effects, are often assumed to be the result of the driver falling asleep behind the wheel. ...
• In order to address this issue, the research community must identify driving performance measures that are sensitive to sleep deprivation. ...
• A study of the Effects of Partial and Total Sleep Deprivation on Driving Performance was conducted jointly by the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Human Factors Laboratory and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research's (WRAIR). It examined the effects of progressive sleep deprivation on simulated driving performance in the laboratory to assess the rate of accidents and changes in driving performance resulting from sleepiness. ... The primary purpose of the study was to examine the effects of reduced sleep and progressive sleep deprivation on driver accident rates under controlled conditions. ...
• In addition, subjects maintained a prescribed sleep schedule (at least 8 hours per night) for the seven days prior to the start of the study that was verified by a wrist-worn movement activity monitor. ...
• Test DayHours of Continuous WakefulnessLevel of Deprivation .
• 4 Hours Sleep.
• No Sleep for One Day.
• No Sleep for Two Days.
• Accident rates showed a small increase after a moderate reduction in the previous night's sleep (4h vs. 8h), and a marked increase with progressive sleep deprivation. ...
• While the increase in accident rate after partial sleep deprivation did not reach statistical significance, it should be noted that a relatively small sample of subjects was used and that continuous driving for long periods of time was not assessed. A related issue remains to be investigated on the effects of chronic partial sleep deprivation (several nights of restricted sleep resulting in a "sleep debt") on driving performance, which we hypothesize may result in off-road driving accidents comparable to total sleep deprivation. ...
• Other driving performance variables significantly affected by progressive sleep deprivation were: .

• Acute Total and Chronic Partial Sleep Deprivation: Effects on Neurobehavioral Function, Waking EEG and Renin-Angiotensin System.
• Total sleep deprivation leads to decrements in neurobehavioral performance and changes in electroencephalographic (EEG) oscillations as well as the incidence of slow eye movements detected in the electro-oculogram (EOG) during wakefulness. Although total sleep deprivation is a powerful tool to investigate the association of EEG/EOG and neurobehavioral decrements, sleep loss during space flight is usually only partial. ... Thus, both projects investigate the effects of posture/bedrest and sleep deprivation (total or partial) on outcome measures relevant to their specific aims. The main aim of this enhancement grant is to exploit the similarities in research protocols by including the assessment of outcome variables relevant to the Renal-Cardio project in the research protocol of Human Performance Factors project and by including the assessment of outcome variables relevant to the Quantitative EEG and Sleep Deprivation Project in the research protocols of the Cardiovascular Alterations project. ...
• 1) Test the hypothesis that chronic partial sleep deprivation during a 17-day bed-rest experiment results in deterioration of neurobehavioral function during waking and increases in EEG power density in the theta frequencies, especially in frontal areas of the brain, as well as the nonREM-REM cycle dependent modulation of heart-rate variability. ...
• 2) Test the hypothesis that acute total sleep deprivation modifies the circadian rhythm of the renin-angiotensin system, changes the acute responsiveness of this system to posture beyond what a microgravity environment alone does and affects the nonREM-REM cycle dependent modulation of heart-rate variability. ...
• The data obtained on the waking EEG and neurobehavioral function in the chronic partial sleep deprivation experiment will complement the data obtained on the effects of total sleep deprivation which are collected in the Human Performance Factors project. The data obtained on the renin-angiotensin levels in the acute total sleep deprivation experiment will complement data obtained on the effects of chronic partial sleep deprivation which will be collected in the Cardiovascular Alterations project. ...

• Losing Sleep.
• (Sleep Deprivation in the US).
• Ah, more sleep. ... Beep! Beep! Beep! Are Most Americans Sleep-deprived?.
• "Yes!" That's what a new poll of 1,014 Americans by the National Sleep Foundation says. ... We are going to sleep later, getting up earlier. ... The average adult sleeps 6 hours and 58 minutes per night during the workweek, according to the National Sleep Foundation poll. Sleep experts recommend 8 hours of sleep per night. ...
• Even children and teenagers are feeling the sleep crunch. According to the Sleep Foundation's survey, 60% of children ages 4-17 years complained of feeling tired during the day during the past year. ...
• Whatever the reason, many children are not getting enough sleep. ... Mary Carskadon, pediatric council chair for the Sleep Foundation, teenagers need about nine hours of sleep, but because of biological changes associated with puberty, teens' sleep-wake clock may not signal that it's time for sleep until 11:00 pm or later. This may translate into teens not getting enough sleep.
• William Dement, head of the Sleep Disorders Center at Stanford University in California, warns that lack of sleep can cause serious consequences such as inability to focus on tasks, impaired memory, and irritability.
• "Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment. ... Dement, in The Promise of Sleep, 1999 .

• SLEEP, DREAMS AND WAKEFULNESS.
• Documentation on sleep.
• This server contains 20 articles on sleep in english.
• Sleep-waking cycle mechanisms .
• Dreams and paradoxical sleep.
• Sleep/Wake Disorders.
• Sleep Bibliography.
• This site also hosts a bibliographic batabase of 45,000 scientific publications published in sleep research. ...

• Sleep and Sleep Deprivation.
• Sleep deprivation produces fatigue of the mind and contributes to a sense of fear in the person who faces uncertainty or danger. To paraphrase Clausewitz, sleep deprivation increases friction in mental operations. ...
• The more sleep-deprived that brain is, the more likely any decision it makes will be bad, perhaps disastrously bad. Because we all rely on our brains, each of us needs to know how much sleep we need, ways to increase sleep during periods of continuous operations, and what happens when we don’t get enough sleep.
• The process of sleeping progresses in stages, from stage one (very light sleep) to stage four (the deepest sleep stage). A typical sleep cycle consists of several minutes spent in passing through stages one and two, a lengthier period at stages three and four, and then a few minutes of dream (or rapid eye movement REM ) sleep. ... Over a typical eight-hour period of sleep, the amount of time spent in stages three and four progressively diminishes, and the amount of dream sleep progressively increases.
• All sleep, regardless of stage, is good and contributes to our daily sleep requirement. (The daily sleep requirement is the amount of sleep we need in each 24-hour period. It can be met through one lengthy period of sleep at night or by shorter periods of sleep, including napping, when the opportunity presents itself. ) Stages three and four of the sleep cycle are the times of least stimulation to the brain and, thus, are the stages of deepest sleep. ... Figure 1 shows the electrical signals at each sleep stage, as recorded by an electroencephalogram (EEG). You will note the markedly different pattern of stages three and four of sleep.
• Another factor that influences sleep is Circadian rhythm, which is the biological clock that we all have that regulates the release of hormones in our bodies throughout each 24-25 hour period. ... Most of us, who prefer to sleep at night and work during the day, are at our lowest levels of alertness and intellectual ability between the hours of 0200 and 0600. ...

• NICI > Publications > 1997 > Effects of benzodiazepines, sleep and sleep deprivation on vigilance and memory.
• Effects of benzodiazepines, sleep and sleep deprivation on vigilance and memory. ...
• In this way also the positive effect of sleep on memory is explained. ... A decrease in vigilance was also obtained by sleep deprivation and an increase by the gavage of the central stimulant methylphenidate. ... Also memory effects were hardly present in sleep deprived subjects with low levels of vigilance and the performance on memory tests were not changed. ...

•  TEENS AND SLEEP.
•  You might be reading this page because your own teen, or one you know, used to sleep well and is now completely off schedule. ...
• Your teen is suffering from severe sleep deprivation. A shift in sleep patterns happens somewhere in the pre-teen years.
• Changes in a teens sleep patterns have been recognized for years. ... Dement, Stanford University's Center on Adolescence, has studied sleep and sleep disorders since 1952. ... That means that even if your adolescents are getting three more hours of sleep each night--they still might be  sleepy in the daytime. ...
• Sleep deprivation is involved in mood regulation, clear thinking and good health in general. So, we know teens have to be up early for school, and to bed early for sleep, but their bodies are now programmed to stay up later and sleep later. ...
• Look at my page on tips for getting a good night's sleep.
• There are excellent doctors who specialize in sleep disorders, and you might need to get a referral to one of them. ...
• Go to Sleep Main Page.
•  Biological Clocks   Sleeping well   Teens and Sleep  .

• Sleep Deprivation .
• Sleep deprivation = not getting enough sleep. ...
• Over the past 200 years, American adults have decreased their nightly sleep by about two hours. ...

• Sleep Deprivation .
• The first guy says "I don't think I'll ever do that again! Ever since we got back, my old lady flings her arms & hollers, "7 come 11" all night & I haven't had a wink of sleep!".
• my old lady played black jack the whole time we were there and she slaps the bed all night and hollers "hit me light or hit me hard", and I haven't had a wink of sleep either!".

• (Sleep Deprivation in the US).
• Ah, more sleep. ... Beep! Beep! Beep! Are Most Americans Sleep-deprived?.
• "Yes!" That's what a new poll of1,014 Americans by the National Sleep Foundation says. ... We aregoing to sleep later, getting up earlier. ... Sleep experts recommend 8 hours of sleep per night. ...
• Even children and teenagers are feeling the sleep crunch. According tothe Sleep Foundation's survey, 60% of children ages 4-17 years complainedof feeling tired during the day during the past year. ...
• Whatever the reason, many children are not getting enough sleep. ... Mary Carskadon,pediatric council chair for the Sleep Foundation, teenagers need aboutnine hours of sleep, but because of biological changes associated withpuberty, teens' sleep-wake clock may not signal that it's time for sleepuntil 11:00 pm or later. ...
• WilliamDement, head of the Sleep Disorders Center at Stanford University inCalifornia, warns that lack of sleep can cause serious consequences suchas inability to focus on tasks, impaired memory, andirritability.
• Dement, in ThePromise of Sleep, 1999.
• How Can You Get a Good Night's Sleep?.
• Stick to a regular sleep schedule. ...
• Didn't know any of this? You're not alone: the survey showed that 83% ofthe adult public failed the sleep IQ test!.
• Less Sleep?.

•     You are Here: Articles > Behavioral Medicine > Winter, 2000 > Article Sponsored Links Content provided in partnership with Print article  Tell a friend  Find subscription deals Self-report Sleep Habits as Predictors of Subjective Sleepiness. ...
• Those who seem to be most affected by sleepiness are people who are partially sleep deprived, either as a result of sleep disorders or as a result of their work and social obligations. As one might expect, people who suffer from sleep disorders report high levels of sleepiness. ...
• One widely used physiological measure is the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT), 8 which measures how long it takes one to go to sleep. The MSLT has been found to be a reliable measure of physiological sleepiness in participants with normal sleep habits, 9 insomniacs, 10 sleep-deprived people, 11 and in survey participants with fragmented sleep. ...
• Subjective sleepiness, that set of subjective feelings that accompany sleep onset, is often assessed by self-report scales, such as the Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS) 13 and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS). 14 Both of these scales have been used to assess sleepiness under various sleep conditions. The SSS has been used to assess sleepiness in sleep deprivation 15,16 and sleep fragmentation 17 and among shift workers, 18 Similarly, the results of the ESS have been shown to be significantly different between people with no sleep complaints and people with sleep disorders 9 and between people who are sleep deprived and those who are not sleep deprived, 19 Another self-report scale used to assess sleepiness is the vigor and fatigue subscale of the Profile of Mood States (POMS; Education and Industrial Testing Service, San Diego, CA). The POMS, like the SSS and ESS, has been used in many different conditions, including sleep deprivation, 20,21 shiftwork, 22 and sleep fragmentation. ...
• For example, the SSS uses a simple scale to measure current levels of sleepiness, whereas the ESS measures sleepiness by assessing the likelihood of going to sleep in different situations (eg, reading or watching TV). ...
• Sleep disorders Psychological aspects.
• Sleep-wake cycle Research .

• Sleep deprivation may be undermining teen health .
• Lack of sufficient sleep--a rampant problem among teens--appears to put adolescents at risk for cognitive and emotional difficulties, poor school performance, accidents and psychopathology, research suggests. ...
• In adults, such meager sleep allowances are known to affect day-to-day functioning in myriad ways. In adolescents, who are biologically driven to sleep longer and later than adults do, the effects of insufficient sleep are likely to be even more dramatic--so much so that some sleep experts contend that the nation's early high-school start times, increasingly common, are tantamount to abuse.
• "Almost all teen-agers, as they reach puberty, become walking zombies because they are getting far too little sleep," comments Cornell University psychologist James B. Maas, PhD, one of the nation's leading sleep experts. ...
• There can be little question that sleep deprivation has negative effects on adolescents. ...
• Insufficient sleep has also been shown to cause difficulties in school, including disciplinary problems, sleepiness in class and poor concentration. ...
• "You can be giving the most stimulating, interesting lectures to sleep-deprived kids early in the morning or right after lunch, when they're at their sleepiest, and the overwhelming drive to sleep replaces any chance of alertness, cognition, memory or understanding. ...
• Recent research has also revealed an association between sleep deprivation and poorer grades. ... Carskadon, PhD, of Brown University Medical School, found that students who reported that they were getting C's, D's and F's in school obtained about 25 minutes less sleep and went to bed about 40 minutes later than students who reported they were getting A's and B's.
• Compared with students whose schools maintained earlier start times, students with later starts reported getting more sleep on school nights, being less sleepy during the day, getting slightly higher grades and experiencing fewer depressive feelings and behaviors.
• Also troubling are findings that adolescent sleep difficulties are often associated with psychopathologies such as depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• This research, combined with studies showing widespread sleep deprivation among teens, has propelled efforts to educate children and adults about the importance of a good night's sleep and to persuade schools to push back high-school starting times.
• "There is substantial evidence that the lack of sleep can cause accidents, imperil students' grades and lead to or exacerbate emotional problems," says U. ...
• The research has also spurred further investigations into why teens need extra sleep, the effects of sleep deprivation on cognition, emotion regulation and psychopathology, and the long-term consequences of chronic sleep deprivation.

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• Sleep Deprivation May Cause Weight Gain.
• Scientists have known for years that not getting enough sleep makes people tired and cranky. ... But preliminary results of a new study also suggest that sleep deprivation may promote weight gain, at least for the short term.
• Some of them sleep less than 6 hours a night; they are categorized as short sleepers. The others sleep 7 to 8 hours a night and are labeled normal sleepers.
• So far, results of the study indicate that the short sleepers have an impaired ability to dispose of glucose using insulin, which may put them on the pathway to obesity, says Van Cauter, who will present the study at a professional sleep meeting in June.
• Researchers don't know whether people who have short-changed themselves of sleep on a regular basis can improve insulin sensitivity by sleeping more.
• In a previous study, Van Cauter and colleagues followed 11 men in their 20s who were allowed to sleep only four hours a night. ...
• The sleep loss affected many biological processes, including thyroid function and levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which was abnormally high in the evening in the sleep-deprived men, she says. But after the men made up for the sleep loss, they showed no signs of permanent damage, and their metabolic levels returned to normal. "The changes could be reversed in young men submitted to just one week of sleep loss, but we do not know whether the alterations can be reversed if sleep loss is more chronic," she says.
• Van Cauter is not sure how lack of sleep might lead to weight gain. ...
• James Walsh, executive director of the Sleep Medicine and Research Center at St. ... Louis, says this work "is significant because researchers are finally assessing the impact of sleep loss on basic physiology, and I think that's a major step forward. ...

• NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION:.
• TACKLING AMERICA’S SLEEP DEBT.
• The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) is the nation’s foremost educational organization in the field of sleep. Comprised of many of the nation’s leading sleep scientists, and medical and transportation safety experts, NSF is dedicated to improving health and safety by achieving greater understanding of sleep and sleep disorders, and by supporting public education, sleep-related research, and advocacy. Established in 1990 as an independent nonprofit organization, NSF has earned the reputation as a credible and well-respected source of information on sleep, sleep disorders, and the consequences of sleep deprivation. ...
• NSF conducts a wide variety of programs designed to alert the public, healthcare providers, and policymakers to the life and death importance of adequate sleep. ...
• NSF is the organizer and sponsor of National Sleep Awareness Week® (NSAW), an annual public education, information, and awareness campaign that coincides with the return to Daylight Saving Time, when clocks “spring forward” at 2:00 a. ... and most Americans lose an hour of sleep. This nationwide effort is the cornerstone for multiple initiatives designed to make sleep consciousness a part of every American’s health and safety plans. NSF’s annual Sleep in America poll is released during NSAW, which generates heavy media attention throughout the country. ...
• Other major NSF public education initiatives include a focus on the dangers of drowsy driving, a public safety problem associated with inadequate sleep, untreated sleep disorders and lifestyle factors that kills 1,500 motorists and passengers each year, a disproportionate share of which are young drivers. ...
• In addition, NSF has taken the lead in disseminating a new public service advertising campaign for print and broadcast media and is the first organization to produce and widely distribute Spanish language information about healthy sleep. NSF also creates and distributes publications for healthcare professionals about sleep and sleep disorders. ...
• NSF’s award-winning quarterly news magazine, sleepmatters, is devoted to the subject of sleep and includes the latest in scientific research. ... org, provides extensive information to the public and the media about the nature of sleep, sleep problems and disorders, research, advocacy, and policy-related issues. ...
• NSF works with Congress and federal agencies to address legislative and regulatory issues related to sleep, alertness and safety, such as hours-of-service rules for commercial drivers. ...

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•      Research  >  Sleep  |  Stress  |  Performance.
• Sleep Deprivation Affects .
•   The increased stress frequently causes sleep problems.   The most prevalent complaints are we either have trouble going to sleep, or we awaken in the night and can’t go back to sleep.
•   Her story illustrates how carrying so many responsibilities impacted her ability to sleep.   Stress and lack of sleep in turn affected her family and work relationships.
•   It took her a long time to go to sleep--frequently it was two or three o’clock in the morning before she finally gave into much needed sleep.   If the baby should awaken her, she always had trouble going back to sleep. ...
• Due to lack of sleep, she became irritable and short-tempered. ...
•   As our stress levels build up our ability to get the quality sleep we need suffers, ultimately leading to strained relationships.   The more sleep-deprived we are, the more tense we become, the more conflicts we seem to have with others, and the less we are able to accomplish.
• Joyce tried Quanta Dynamics’ Gift of Sleep™ CD program and found it to be very helpful. ...   Within a short time her sleep had improved and she was feeling much better. ...
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• Sleep Deprivation A Common Ailment for UMBC Students Kaidye Hansen Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff .
• But if students aren’t cautious, sleep deprivation could lead to an addiction to caffeine pills, Aderall and Ritalin, which make the potential of cardiac problems, anxiety, shortness of breath, increased pulse rate and headaches more likely. Some extreme cases of sleep deprivation are even sent to emergency rooms. ...
• UMBC’s Health Center treats many patients with complications of sleep deprivation. ... They say that the largest reason for student sleep deprivation seems to be homework, although partying and video games come in at a close second and third. ...
• Junior Frank Jackson has had three years to build up a lack of sleep, and feels that while some of it was worthwhile, many of the times he should havejust gone to bed. ... "Now that I am really getting into my harder level classes and have to stay awake, I wish I had gotten the sleep while I had the chance. ...
• Sophomore Brianna Buccolo said that she regularly gets less than five hours of sleep a night. ...
• Buccolo said that she gets so little sleep for a variety of reasons, including homework, partying and just plain procrastination. ...
• While the hospital is at the far end of the spectrum of the risks associated with sleep deprivation, there are many others to consider, such as bad grades, flunking a class, ill health, anxiety and grumpiness. ...
• Freshman Rob Miranda varies his sleep pattern, getting up to 12 hours of sleep some nights and as few as two or three on other nights. ... "The amount of sleep I get depends on whether or not I wake up for class. If I do, I get less sleep; if I don’t, I sleep in until noon or even sometimes two in the afternoon. ...
• In order to sleep better and more often, the University Health Center has a few suggestions. ... Though it is a depressant, which initially aids sleep, it will wake the brain up a few hours after falling asleep. Another suggestion is for students to use their bed only for sleep, so that the brain associates it only with sleeping. ...

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• In reply to: Clover Hodgson: "Sleep Deprivation" .

• Wednesday, 15 May, 2002, 23:40 GMT 00:40 UK Secrets of sleep deprivation.
• Scientists are unlocking the genes involved in sleep.
• Scientists are closer to understanding the mysterious "circadian" rhythm that governs sleep and wake after an experiment using fruit flies. ...
• They bred flies missing a gene vital to the daily cycle - which made sleep deprivation have fatal consequences within hours. ...
• But they managed to help the flies survive longer by kick-starting a process which protects cells from sleep deprivation.
• The effects of sleep deprivation - in both humans and flies - can be damaging. ...
• In the case of the circadian clock, flies have a gene called "cycle" which plays a vital role in maintaining a sleep/wake rhythm. ...
• Flies bred lacking their cycle gene tended to die after missing only 10 hours of sleep, found scientists from the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, California. ...
• Scientists noticed that other genes in these mutated flies were less active after sleep deprivation. ...
• These genes, which produce "heat shock" proteins, were artificially stimulated prior to sleep deprivation by raising the fly's environment to human body temperature. ...
• As the processes involved in human sleep cycles are thought to operate on broadly the same terms, it is possible these "heat shock" proteins in humans may also influence recovery from the effects of sleep deprivation. ...
• The proteins are cellular "chaperones" - preventing cells from suffering damage when they exposed to stresses such as excess heat, lack of nutrition - or sleep deprivation. ...
• Dr Paul Shaw, who led the research, published in the journal Nature, said: "It's been known for many years that the circadian clock can control sleep timing, but what these data show is that one of its key components plays another role in sleep. ...
• "The role is so important that when that gene's gone, these animals will die from sleep loss. ...
• Professor Bambos Kyriacou, from the University of Leicester, told BBC News Online: "What's important is that these are the first people to look at the molecular biology of sleep and sleep deprivation. ...
• Sleep Medicine HomepageNature .

• Sleep: More Important Than You Think .
• Chronic Sleep Deprivation May Harm Health.
• It may surprise you to learn that chronic sleep deprivation, for whatever reason, significantly affects your health, performance, safety, and pocketbook. ...
• There are many causes of sleep deprivation. The stresses of daily life may intrude upon our ability to sleep well , or perhaps we trade sleep for more work or play. We may have medical or mental-health conditions that disrupt our sleep and be well aware that we are sleep-deprived.
• However, it is critically important to realize that sleep deprivation is very often due to unrecognized sleep disorders. After a typical night's sleep, you may not feel restored and refreshed and be sleepy during the day, but be totally unaware that you are sleep-deprived or have a sleep disorder. ...
• That said, let's look at the consequences of sleep deprivation. ...
• Sleep deprivation induces significant reductions in performance and alertness. Reducing your nighttime sleep by as little as one and a half hours for just one night could result in a reduction of daytime alertness by as much as 32%.
• Disruption of a bed partner's sleep due to a sleep disorder may cause significant problems for the relationship (for example, separate bedrooms, conflicts, moodiness, etc. ...
• The good news for many of the disorders that cause sleep deprivation is that after risk assessment, education, and treatment, memory and cognitive deficits improve and the number of injuries decreases. ...
• In the long term, the clinical consequences of untreated sleep disorders are large indeed. ...
• Disruption of bed-partner's sleep quality .

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