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• Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, and Human Performance in Continuous Operations.
• Self-care, ranging from changing one's socks, through ensuring that one gets adequate amounts of sleep to participating in after-action reconstructive debriefings after a difficult operation, helps sustain individual - and hence unit - effectiveness in operational settings, reduces casualties, and increases the likelihood of a good long-term outcome for all unit personnel. ...
• Sleep .
• This paper focuses on sleep because of sleep's importance in sustaining performance and as a case study of the interplay between command responsibility, personal responsibility, operational planning, technology, and outcome that characterize the present and future conduct of operations. ...
• Sleep, Sleep Deprivation and Combat/Operational Performance.
• Sleep-deprived individuals are able to maintain accuracy on cognitive tasks, but speed declines as wakefulness is extended. When sleep-deprived, a soldier's thinking can slow to the point that he cannot reach a correct decision within the available time. ... Sleep deprivation degrades the higher, more complex mental processes. ... This disparity between the effects of sleep deprivation on simple and complex mental abilities helps explain friendly fire incidents. In the sleep-deprived state, soldiers can still put the cross-hairs on a target and fire rounds accurately down range, but their orientation to the terrain and tactical situation degrades. ... This is not to say that soldiers and combat units cannot fight when short of sleep; they will just be less effective. To borrow from General Patton, the idea is not to lose sleep for your country but to get the enemy soldier to lose sleep for his. ...
• Sleep in the U. ...
• Continuous combat is characterized by brief, fragmented sleep. Brief, fragmented sleep is typically reported in anecdotal accounts of actual combat operations, and has been objectively verified in studies of simulated combat operations. We studied sleep patterns (using our wrist-worn Sleep/Activity Monitor described below) during the 58 days of U. ... 2 hours of sleep each night over the 58 days of the school (Pleban et al. ... 6 hours each night (see figure -- Ranger School: Average Daily Sleep in each of the Four Phases). This sleep was not accrued in a single sleep period, but rather occurred as several naps over each 24 hours. ...

• Sleep Deprivation.
• Sleep is more or less essential to ensure that our bodies and minds function, assuming that one has a somewhat high standard of the definition of the term 'function'. It is, however, possible for one to function after having gone for extended periods of time without sleep, provided they lower their standards. ...
• Symptoms of Sleep Deprivation.
• The first things you are most likely to notice, if you are sleep-deprived, is a drastic increase in the frequency of your yawns. Now yawning, contrary to popular belief, is not brought on by lack of sleep but instead by a decrease in the amount of oxygen that gets to the brain. This decrease in the flow of oxygen usually happens when one doesn’t take deep enough breaths which in turn, is usually caused by lack of sleep.
• The definition of 'proper' is debatable, but regardless of how well one's brain performs when you've slept adequately, there will, no doubt, be a noticeable decrease in performance as one's sleep level goes down. Sleep deprivation is one of the most common causes of stupidity in mildly intelligent people.
• What to Do if you are Sleep Deprived.
• The most obvious answer can be stated in one word: sleep.
• Since the above answer is not always possible, people often find other solutions as to what to do when they've not had enough sleep.
• This often works for short periods of time, but inevitably leads to an even more severe case of sleep deprivation.
• Drugs like caffeine tend to diminish the effects of sleep deprivation. ...
• Still, the best thing to do if you find yourself unable to function after having gone for many, long hours without sleep, is to cancel your appointments, find a nice cosy place to lie down on a couch, bed or under a dumpster, shut your eyes and go to sleep.
• Sleep.

• Brain Activity Is Visibly Altered Following Sleep Deprivation.
• The ability of the brain to function following sleep deprivation appears to vary with the task at hand, and in some cases the brain attempts to compensate for the adverse effects caused by lack of sleep, according to a study published in the Feb. ...
• Memorizing In Your Sleep.
• Sleep Deprivation Within Five Hours Of Learning Impairs Memory Consolidation In Mice.
• New Reason To "Sleep On It": Study Shows Importance Of Sleep To Memory Consolidation And Task Performance.
• A team of researchers from the UCSD School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, San Diego used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to monitor activity in the brains of sleep-deprived subjects performing simple verbal learning tasks. ...
• Furthermore, the temporal lobe, a brain region involved in language processing, was activated during verbal learning in rested subjects but not in sleep deprived subjects. Additionally, a region of the brain called the parietal lobes, not activated in rested subjects during the verbal exercise, was more active when the subjects were deprived of sleep. ... Although subjects’ memory performance was less efficient with sleep deprivation, greater activity in the parietal region was associated with better memory. ...
• “Only in recent years have we begun to realize the prevalence and severity of sleep deprivation in our population, with a significant number of people doing shift work, suffering from jet lag and so forth,” said J. ... “Yet, we don’t know very much about how sleep deprivation impairs performance, and how precisely the brain reacts to lack of sleep. These findings are just a beginning, and as we learn more, perhaps will be able to devise interventions to alleviate the behavioral impairments associated with lack of sleep. ...
• For this study, thirteen normal healthy subjects were first evaluated in a sleep laboratory to determine that their sleep patterns were normal. They were then kept awake and carefully monitored in a hospital sleep laboratory for over a period of about 35 hours. ... These images reveal increased and decreased activation of specific regions of the brain in each subject from a rested state through various stages of sleep deprivation. ...
• This study and another study published by Gillin’s team in the December 1999 NeuroReport indicate that the brain is extremely dynamic in its efforts to function when deprived of sleep, though the consequence for the subject is diminished ability to perform basic cognitive tasks. It is also apparent that the effects of sleep loss are different depending on the cognitive task the brain is asked to perform. ...

• Sleep deprivation .
• Can sleep deprivation trigger a seizure?.
• Some people suffer a single seizure for the only time in their entire life after an "all-nighter" at college or after a prolonged period of poor sleep associated with a major life stress. If you have epilepsy, lack of proper sleep can increase your chances of having a seizure. ...
• Why does sleep deprivation provoke seizures?.
• We don't know why sleep deprivation provokes seizures. The sleep-wake cycle is associated with prominent changes in brain electrical activity and hormonal activity, so seizures and the sleep-wake cycle are often clearly related. ...
• To avoid sleep deprivation, how much sleep should I get?.
• "Adequate sleep" varies from person to person. A simple definition of adequate sleep is the amount that leaves you feeling refreshed the next day. ... For some people, however, this kind of disruption of their sleep-wake cycle (circadian rhythm) makes seizures more likely even if they sleep for the same number of hours. ...
• What are some strategies for getting a good night's sleep?.
• Read in bed instead of watching television (unless reading a good novel keeps you awake and TV puts you to sleep). ...
• Can sleeping pills help with sleep difficulties?.
• During a period of tremendous stress, however, such as loss of a job or a relationship, the careful use of sleeping pills for several nights can help to prevent a seizure caused by sleep deprivation. ...
• But I just can't sleep without sleeping pills!.

• Daily Jolt > USG Health Article 4 -- Sleep Deprivation .
• Sleep Deprivation Spring Chenoa Cooper Normal Buckley Eugene Thompson 2 81 2000-03-19T20:42:00Z 2000-03-19T20:42:00Z 3 732 4175 34 8 5127 9. 2720 0 0 Sleep Deprivation.
•   Most of you are probably sleep deprived. ... html and take the sleep test. ...   Excessive daytime sleepiness is a condition where you feel very drowsy during the day and may have an overwhelming urge to fall asleep, even after getting enough sleep on the previous night. ...   Now let’s look at the effects that sleep deprivation can have on you and how to improve the quality, if not quantity of your sleep.   Because, after all, sleep deprivation is a very common disorder in the US that has dangerous side effects and can be easily prevented.
• We all know we should be sleeping instead of partying or studying when it gets to be two or three in the morning, but not many of us realize why, or how important this sleep actually is.   That’s probably why America has such a problem with sleep deprivation. ...   According to the National Sleep Foundation, 72% of men and 54% of women drive while they are drowsy, and 36% of men and 20% of women have dozed off while driving during the past year. ...   And 32% sleep less than six hours. ...   Nearly two-thirds of US adults have never been asked by their doctor how well they sleep. ...   So what effects is all of this sleep deprivation having on our bodies??.
• Well, the effects of sleep deprivation are numerous. ...   The more sleep deprived one is, the less they are able to concentrate. ...   Heart palpations are yet another effect that lack of sleep may have on you. ...

• The Maladies of Sleep Depravation .
• The Sleep Cycle .
• When we deprive ourselves of sleep, there is a delicate cycle that we disrupt.
• When the alpha waves disappear, replaced by theta waves, the sleeper has tumbled into the sensory void called stage one sleep. ...
• Sleep deprived people have a "shorter fuse" and also tend to get depressed more easily.
• Phase Three: After Phase two is over, the sleeper falls into a deeper sleep. ...
• Sleep research indicates through studies that the average sleeper will sleep approximately 8 hours and fifteen minutes when uninterrupted. During this research, there were no alarm clocks or disturbing noises to interrupt normal sleep patterns. 8 hours and fifteen minutes is believed to be the ideal physiological amount of time that the body requires for proper sleep time. ...
• Maladies Caused By Sleep Deprivation.
• The following are the maladies that according to research can be the result of consistent sleep deprivation: Impaired glucose tolerance: Without sleep, the central nervous system becomes more active, something that inhibits the pancreas from producing adequate insulin, the hormone the body needs to digest glucose. "In healthy young men with no risk factor, in one week, we had them in a pre-diabetic state," says researcher Van Cauter when referring to a study that he conducted on the effects of sleep deprivation. ...
• Possible link to obesity: This is due to the fact that much of people's growth hormone is secreted during the first round of deep sleep. As both men and women age, they naturally spend less time in deep sleep, which reduces growth hormone secretion. Lack of sleep at a younger age, however, could drive down growth hormone prematurely, accelerating as a result the fat-gaining process. ...
• Increased carbohydrate cravings: This is due to the fact that sleep deprivation negatively affects the production of a hormone called Leptin. ...

•         Sleep Deprivation (Reprint of 02/1997 Newsletter) Dear friends,         This month I wanted to talk a bit about the subject of sleep deprivation since quite a few people that I work with seem to be suffering with the symptoms of that condition.  Interestingly, they're often unclear about what's causing their symptoms, although when I suggest that it might be sleep deprivation it makes complete sense to them.           The most well known symptoms of sleep deprivation are fatigue, sleepiness, anxiety, impaired concentration, impaired memory, and irritability.  A person who has lost enough sleep can appear drunk with both staggering and slurring their words.  Because of the mental/emotional symptoms that occur, many people with sleep deprivation feel that they're not handling stress well or not interacting with others well and they're disappointed with their own behavior.  In actuality they're being unfair to themselves, since a sleep-deprived person is bound to have these symptoms no matter how centered they are in other ways.         During the course of our lives, we need progressively less and less sleep.  Babies can typically sleep up to 20 hours a day, children under 6 need about 10 hours of sleep a day, and 6-14 year olds need around 9 hours.  People of 35-50 need about 7 hours and those over 50 can often do well on 6 hours of sleep a day or less.  What is not widely recognized is that poor quality sleep can have the same effect on a person a not getting enough hours of sleep.         Many things can effect the quality of sleep.
• Good sleep, Lydia LBel@aol. ...

• Teens Explore Effects of Sleep Deprivation.
• Have you noticed that your high school students get too little sleep? Have you noticed that a lack of sleep might affect the school performance of your students? Science teacher Andrea Lynne Winkle is using the Internet to collect data related to students' sleep patterns. ...
• It's not too late to participate in the Are You Getting Enough Sleep? project! Have your high school students track their sleep time next week and submit the data to the project. ...
• She designed an Internet project that involves adolescents in tracking their sleep patterns for a week. ...
• The purpose of the project is for students to explore how their sleep patterns affect their health, grades, and performance in class, Winkle says. Sharing the data with other schools through the Internet allows students to look for similar sleep patterns among other students and to determine how the amount of sleep they get affects their daily lives. ...
• The project, Are You Getting Enough Sleep?, is a collaboration of the Milwaukee Public Schools, the Greater Milwaukee Schools, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Mathematics and Science Education Research. ...
• The sleep project is one of several collaborative online projects sponsored by this same coalition, which makes one or two online projects available per grade level. ...
• Winkle notes that middle grade students have reported that they generally get enough sleep, but the amount decreases for older middle school and high school students. However, nearly all the students responded that they try to catch up on sleep on weekends. ...
• The results varied significantly, with sleep totals ranging from six to eight hours nightly. ...
• CORRELATION BETWEEN SLEEP AND GRADES.
• The relationship between the amount of sleep and classroom performance varied. "One teacher found no correlation between less sleep and poorer grades whereas another teacher did," Winkle tells Education World. "One teacher also found no correlation between absence due to illness and sleep amounts. ...
• Sleep research indicates that sleep patterns and sleep needs change when children become adolescents. Studies show that most adolescents need more than eight hours of sleep each night. ...

• Fibromyalgia and Sleep Deprivation: Pills and Pillows .
• Fibromyalgia and Sleep Deprivation: Pills and Pillows.
• For adults with fibromyalgia, pills may or may not help resolve the sleep difficulties that challenge many. ...
• And in some cases, a sleep medication may help a person fall asleep but then not help them achieve deep, restorative sleep. When it comes to sleep for adults with fibromyalgia, pain medications also may interfere with an adult’s ability to sleep. ...
• Common symptoms include sleep disorders and fatigue, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
• The prescription sleep medication Ambien ® can help induce sleep. Yet, in some cases, it does little to help maintain restorative sleep, said Anne Winkler, M. ...
• Restorative sleep - also known as delta sleep -- is the most crucial stage of sleep. ...
• Without delta sleep, a person with fibromyalgia might sleep eight hours yet wake feeling unrefreshed. ...
• Tips for Good Sleep:.
• Maintain a steady sleep pattern. Don't go to sleep at 2 in the morning, only to hit the hay at 7 the next evening. ...
• Some prescription medications such as Amitriptyline are better options people with FMS because they provide long-term sleep aid, said Winkler.
• Over-the-counter sleeping pills, such as Tylenol PM, do not induce deep sleep, and are counter-productive for people with FMS, according to The Oregon Fibromyalgia Network. ...
• For adults with fibromyalgia, taking pain pills can present a difficult choice between getting a good night's sleep and preventing agony. ...

• A Survey Analysis: Are TSU Freshmen Sleep Deprived and Why? Bridget Bosworth Abstract .
• Sleep deprivation is a growing problem among Americans, especially among college students. A person should get at least 6-8 hours of sleep every night, and most people say they get less than 6. The effects of not getting enough sleep can easily be seen in college students. Whether they are falling asleep in class, yawning consistently, or having to take a nap in order to get through the day, it is evident that college students suffer from sleep deprivation. ...
• This paper is going to focus on a survey that I created in order to find out of Tarleton freshmen are sleep deprived and the reasons why. My sleep survey was completed by 95 TSU freshmen, ranging in age from 18-41. The results found that majority of TSU freshmen are sleep deprived. The top reasons for why they are sleep deprived were due to stress, working late, visiting with friends, or doing homework. ...
• Sleep deprivation is considered a very serious problem, and it seems that more and more Americans are having to deal with it. Americans do not get enough sleep anymore for a number of reasons. ... Sleep is not a priority to people. ... Maureen May, a nurse at Simpson College, says that "Many people think that they can make up for a weeks worth of little sleep in a weekend. ... The average person requires at least 8 hours of sleep each night (Krug, 1999). But, in a 1998 National Sleep Foundation survey it was found that "one-third of Americans reported getting six or fewer hours of sleep per night during the work week" (Krug, 1999). What most people do not realize is how crucial a good nights sleep is to our body. "Sleep is a necessary factor to sustain life" (Sleep Deprivation). The amount of sleep a person gets affects such things like concentration, memory, driving, and many of our other daily tasks. "Studies have shown that once the brain is deprived of sleep for an extended period of time, judgment, motor skills, cognitive faculties and reasoning ability all are affected" (Poyner, 1996). It has been estimated by the National Sleep Foundation that "more than two-thirds of American adults have a sleep-related problem, and that 23 percent have actually fallen asleep while driving" (Peters.

• Lack of sleep will make you slow and slur your speech, but it will also improve your maths, your ability to sort items and your short term memory! .
• The lunchtime before they were sleep deprived they were tested to see how their brains normally performed. ...
• Your ability to thread a needle and cross-stitch is unaffected by lack of sleep (see the hand-eye co-ordination experiment ). ...

• Talk:Sleep.
• By adding "Researchers do not know what is the role of sleep", you inserted a blatant fallacy into this text. ... Who does not know the role of sleep? Vertes? If you said "Researchers do not know all the function of sleep" you might be closer to the truth because there are many in the research community who still push on with some of their own theories. If a simple experiment: learn the Towers of Hanoi, get sleep or do not get sleep, check the performance, clearly indicates deficit in procedural learning for sleep deprived, no reasonable person would question the role of sleep in learning. ... Imagine searching the net about the theory of evolution in the 1860s (the most valuable findings in sleep&learning research date to late 1980s and the 1990s). ...
• I think the wording could be better--I agree with Piotr that it is well established that consolidation of memory occurs during sleep, but that by no means should elevate this simple fact to a "purpose". ... Now, last I heard, it was an enormous mystery to sleep researchers what the purpose of sleep is, though there were a number of theories. I am willing to concede that in the intervening years (ten?), researchers have concluded that sleep does have at least one specific, well-demonstrated function; but in that case, it would be a good idea to say who the (main) researchers are who have demonstrated this, how it was demonstrated, and so forth--all the details you (finally and helpfully) mention above. ...
• I put some links to popular scientific articles at sleep and learning. If they survive future edits, any reasonable person can draw his or her own conclusions about the role of sleep (don't we all pause why should we waste 1/3 of our lives on a seemingly useless state of unawareness and vulnerability? -- the greatest minds in the research community have a very simple answer to that: optimizing memory storage in condition of information excess). If anyone is interested in my own popular scientific summary and practical applications of knowledge about sleep, see: http://www. ... com/articles/sleep. ...
• Not just humans sleep - other mammals certainly do and other animals have similar rest states. ... -rmhermen According to what I've read in body-building literature, sleep is necessary for muscle growth and repair. Sleep probably serves numerous other physical purposes, which should be included in the article. ...
• You can rest your muscles ok without getting any sleep. The belief that sleep is needed for muscle regenration comes from the fact that the organisms puts various defense mechanisms against sleep deprivation that would slow down registering new generalized and non-interfering memories to a crawl. ...

• Effective Sleep.
• Sleep Deprivation Lowers Percentage of Natural Killer Cells In Blood .
• Sleep deprivation lowers the percentage of natural killer cells in peripheral blood according to Dr. Zerrin Pelin, who presented her findings to participants at this year's meeting of the American Sleep Disorders Dr. Pelin reported that CD16 levels changed significantly with sleep deprivation. ... Pelin believes that the decrease in the proportion of natural killer cells in peripheral blood during sleep deprivation may reflect the suppression of nonspecific immune response and an increased susceptibility to viral infection.
• Sleep Loss Can Also Trigger Mania.
• Disruption in sleep may be dangerous for people with bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression. A new study suggests that sleep disturbances may trigger an episode of mania, in which individuals lose touch with reality, need little sleep or food, have enormous amounts of energy, and are easily triggered into states of rage or paranoia. ...

• Activating Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Synchronized MEG-EEG Recordings of Epilepsy Patients with Non-Diagnostic EEG.
• This study will evaluate how the state of being completely deprived of sleep has an effect on recordings of magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG), in relation to how alert someone is and how sleepy someone perceives himself or herself to be. ...
• The complex relationship of sleep and epilepsy is well known. Sleep has been used for many years as a powerful EEG activator. Many researchers have supported the hypothesis that there is a specific activating effect of sleep deprivation on epileptic discharges. Sleep deprivation is defined as a sleepless state of longer than 24 hours. ...
• They will be randomly assigned to stay awake all night or sleep in the hospital overnight. That is, a sleep deprivation and non-sleep deprivation synchronized MEG-EEG recording will be performed in random order. Then the sequence of sleep deprivation and non-sleep deprivation will be reversed within 14 to 21 days. ... Attempts will be made to encourage patients to stay awake and sleep for about the same amount of time during each recording, to acquire comparable amounts of sleep and awake recordings. ...
• Official Title: Activating Effects of Sleep Deprivation On Synchronized MEF-EEG Recordings Of Epilepsy Patients with Non-Diagnostic EEG.
• We would like to evaluate the activating effects of complete sleep deprivation (SD) on synchronized MEG-EEG recordings, and on each of the components singly, in relation to the degree of alertness during recording (awake vs. sleep) and the subjective degree of sleepiness as assessed by standardized scales. ...
• We will attempt to record a comparable amount of awake and sleep data. ... For the purpose of blinding, each modality will be read independently by two readers, each of whom will be blinded to the relationship of the MEG-EEG data to sleep deprivation, results obtained by the other modality and subjective degree of sleepiness. ...
• Patients who are unable to sustain the required degree of sleep deprivation.

• sleep:.
• Two Ends of Sleep: A Novel.
• The MySleepCenter Bookstore is a bookstore with a wide selection of books about Sleep,Snore, and Apnea. It includes topics such as sleep problem, sleep help, sleep talk, sleep health, sleep deprivation, better sleep, sleep medicine, sleep and drugs, sleep disorder, insomnia cure, narcolepsy, snoring, hypersomnia, baby sleep, children sleep, child sleep, bedtime stories, sleeping beauty, sheep sleep, dream, sleep, sleeping, snore, and sleep novel. ... They have selected many hardbacks and paperbacks, such as The Therapeutic Nightmare: The Battle over the World's Most Controversial Sleeping Pill (Health and the Environment Series) , While Dragons Sleep: How to Solve a Chemical Dependence Problem and I'm Taking a Nap. ...

• Title: The Effect of Sleep Deprivation on Athletic Performance.
• Most athletes view the interruption or loss of sleep as a contributing factor to failure in sport. The benefit of sleep is held in high regard prior to, and during competition, despite the fact these beliefs are not confirmed by any scientific understanding of the physiological effects of sleep on performance.
• The majority of research on the lack of sleep or sleep deprivation and its effect on performance, focuses primarily on its effect on sub-maximal aerobic performance 1,3,4,5,6,12,13 and VO2 max 1,4,7,12,13. There is also further research that examines the neurological responses 11 and anaerobic strength 2,11,12,13 of individuals who have been deprived of sleep.
• PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO SLEEP DEPRIVATION.
• When considering the effect of sleep deprivation on aerobic performance, many physiological and performance indicators have been addressed. Despite the fact researchers have used periods of sleep deprivation ranging from 30 hours 4,5 through to 60 hours 6 , no change in results has been evident. However, a study performed on subjects in a ‘normal’ state and those who had been deprived of sleep for 42 hours found that measures of ventilation, VCO2 and VO2 were significantly reduced by sleep deprivation1. It was therefore determined that "work intensity above 75% of VO2 max should be preceded by a normal night’s sleep for maximum efficiency. ...
• Apart from the above study, the consensus among researchers is that sleep deprivation has little or no effect on aerobic performance and respiratory factors such as oxygen uptake, other gas exchange variables and ventilation. ...
• Increased rating of perceived exertion 1,4,6,12 and a reduced time to the point of exhaustion 1,3,12 , up to 20%, are two conclusive effects that sleep deprivation has on aerobic performance. Perceived exertion is obviously a psychological effect as subjects describe resistance as greater after sleep deprivation, yet are able to perform the tasks with the same physiological responses. 5 Physiological analysis has also found that there is a significant reduction in glucose tolerance in humans following sleep deprivation 12 which has implications in sustained aerobic exercise. ...
• There appears to be no unified conclusion on the effect of sleep deprivation on heart rates during aerobic exercise. Two researchers 3,10 found no significant fluctuations in heart rate due to prolonged sleep deprivation, whilst another three 1,5,6 reported clear reductions in heart rate after sleep deprivation at various workloads. ... Opinions are divided on the effect of sleep deprivation on heart rates. ...

• Stanford University Center of Excellence for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sleep Disorders .
• | How much sleep do we need? What is sleep debt? | What causes us to feel sleepy? | America is a sleepy society | What is the biological clock? What does it do for us? | Drowsiness is red alert! | What is sleep? | What are sleep disorders? | Should Stanford undergraduates (and others) know about sleep disorders? | How common are sleep disorders? | Are student health physicians familiar with sleep disorders? | One more time! Drowsiness is red alert! | .
• This document describes some of the key facts about sleep, biological rhythms, and sleep deprivation that should be well known to every Stanford student as well as everyone everywhere. ...
• A recent survey of Stanford undergraduates revealed that their number one complaint was not getting enough sleep! heard a validation of this complaint from the lips of a well known alumnus, Tiger Woods, who said that one of the best things about his choice to leave Stanford for the professional golf circuit was that he could now get enough sleep. Although I offer an undergraduate course on sleep and dreams once each year, it is clear that it does not meet the need for all students to have some information about this topic. Most entering students have previously received no teaching whatsoever about sleep. ...
• We have learned that the consequences of pervasive sleep deprivation and undiagnosed sleep disorders are collectively one of our nation's biggest and most serious problems. ... A single sleep disorder, obstructive sleep apnea, is now known to afflict 30 million Americans. ...
• The paradox is that our society remains a vast reservoir of ignorance about sleep deprivation and sleep disorders. The benefits of the hard earned knowledge about normal and pathological sleep have not been passed on to the general public and practicing physicians. ...
• Why is this? Teaching about sleep and dreams, the nature and consequences of sleep deprivation, and common sleep disorder symptoms is essentially absent from the undergraduate and graduate curriculum in our colleges and universities. ...
• In every classroom in America, students must learn that healthy sleep, along with physical fitness and good nutrition, form the fundamental triumvirate of health. However healthy we think we are, students and non-students alike, we must realize that we cannot be healthy unless our sleep is healthy! .
• How much sleep do we need? What is sleep debt? .
• Each of us has a specific daily sleep requirement. The average sleep requirement for college students is well over eight hours, and the majority of students would fall within the range of this value plus or minus one hour. If this amount is not obtained, a sleep debt is created. All lost sleep accumulates progressively as a larger and larger sleep indebtedness. Furthermore, your sleep debt does not go away or spontaneously decrease. The only way to reduce your individual sleep debt is by obtaining extra sleep over and above your daily requirement. ...

• At the February 1988 meeting, YCCC member, Thomas Scott Johnson, KA1QXI (now NW1I, who now lives in Concord, MA), a physician at Brigham & Women's Hospital specializing in sleep problems, spoke on sleep deprivation strategies - or how to sleep four hours out of 48. This is the first program we can remember where the majority of those present took notes! He began by telling us that most people come to the Hospital's Sleep Clinic complaining that they have trouble sleeping, and it is interesting to speak before a group that wants to learn how to avoid or minimize sleep. After a brief overview of the physiology of sleep (90 minute cycling, REM sleep, and so forth), he gave his recommended schedule. ... Two hours before your normal waking time, take a 90-minute nap (this allows a full sleep cycle so that you will wake up refreshed), or sleep for 180 minutes. ...
• Only drink coffee when you awaken from your naps; otherwise you will have trouble falling asleep and will not awaken rested when you do sleep. ...
• Avoid heavy physical activity (such as tower or tree climbing) right before the contest since it promotes deep sleep. ...
• Keep the shack warm, 72 to 74 degrees, since low body temperature encourages sleep. ...

• Sleep and TV.
•  Home  >  Sleep Well  >  Sleep and TV.
• Why Johnny Can't Sleep.
• Having Leno or Letterman in the bedroom can actually keep you from getting the sleep you need. ... The tantrum you'll endure is a small price to pay to prevent a sleep situation that can become a parent's nightmare.
• The September article, "Television-viewing Habits and Sleep Disturbance in School Children," took an extensive look at the relation between children's viewing habits and the quality of their sleep, which, the report stated, has rarely been examined in studies of risk factors for sleep problems. ...
• The study found that having a television set in the bedroom directly affected the child's quality of sleep, although the majority of parents felt that television had a negligible, if any, effect on their children's sleep. Television viewing at bedtime, and overall heavy television viewing, caused children to resist going to bed, to have trouble falling asleep, and to sleep less than the recommended eight hours. TV watching habits, such as falling asleep in front of the television, seemed to cause sleep disturbances in 25 percent of children with behavioral sleep disorders.
• 6% of the children complained about their sleep.
• "Television may serve to displace sleep time, thus shortening sleep duration to unacceptable limits," stated the report. "The time spent by the child in television viewing may substitute for other less sedentary and/or less passive activities (like playing outside, engaging in sports activities), resulting in poor-quality sleep. ...
• In addition to time spent watching television, the content of programming may have an effect on children's sleep patterns. ...
• Regardless of the content of programs, children's sleep is most deeply affected by having a television in the bedroom and using it as a sleep aid. ... As the study clearly shows, this belief indirectly contributes to greater sleep disturbances and increased resistance at bedtime. ... The report concluded that children's television viewing and increased sleepiness may become more entwined as the child grows older and bring about entrenched sleep habits that are unhealthy but difficult to change.

• Dream & Sleep Related Sites on the Net.
• Sleep Research, Disorders and Informaton Links  .
• Sleep Information and Sleep Research Sites .
• SleepNet - Everything you want to know about sleep but are too tired to ask. One objective of the SleepNet is to link all known sleep information on the Internet together at one location for easy access. ...
• Sleep Disorders .
• Sleep Links .
• Sleep Debt .
• Sleep Labs .
• Sleep Medicine - lists resources regarding all aspects of sleep including, the physiology of sleep, clinical sleep medicine, sleep research, federal and state information, patient information, and business-related groups. ...
• The Sleep Well Great information on all levels, especially the sleep activist wanting to get information out to the public. ...
• Clinical Sleep Research Discussion Forum - REM sleep and dreaming Bulletin Board, sponsored by BISLEEP, Mark Mahowald and the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN .
• ASD Bulletin Board on the World Wide Web A great place to propose and discuss global dreaming research projects, ask about funding, contact sleep researchers and learn about dreaming science. ...
• Sleep and Dreaming Classified Abstracts COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY 3. 10 Sleep and dreaming .
• AMERICAN SLEEP RESEARCH INSTITUTE Defining Sleep Quality Criteria Through Qualitative Evaluation and Biomechanical Research. ...

• Sleep Deprivation And ADHD.
• Sleep deprivation had changed me from a calm, caring person into an irritable, impulsive mess. ...
• As if it shouldn't have been obvious, research has shown that the sleep deprivation associated with residents' on-call schedules brings about significant "impairment of physician mood" as the sleep deprivation increases (Journal of Occupational Medicine, Dec 1992).
• The surprising news is that partial, or low-level, sleep deprivation has a bigger effect on behavior than either the short or long-term complete sleep deprivation experienced by residents (Sleep, May 1996). Until recently, the effects of partial sleep deprivation have been seriously underestimated.
• We know, based on common sense, that inadequate sleep makes kids more moody, more impulsive, and less able to concentrate. We've known for more than 20 years that sleep deprivation makes it difficult to learn (Journal of Experimental Psychology, Mar 1975). Recent research has verified that chronic poor sleep results in daytime tiredness, difficulties with focused attention, low threshold to express negative emotion (irritability and easy frustration), and difficulty modulating impulses and emotions (Seminars in Pediatric Neurology, Mar 1996). ...
• ADD is an important problem in its own right, but research in sleep laboratories has shown that some (and perhaps a great many) kids are mislabeled with ADD when the real problem is chronic, partial sleep deprivation.
• Any child who snores may not be getting adequate sleep. Obstructive sleep apnea is a common medical condition that is now being identified in more and more children. ... Not all kids who snore have sleep apnea. Classically, those with sleep apnea snore quite loudly for a bit, then are silent, then snort briefly, move about, and resume snoring. If snoring is accompanied by nighttime breathing difficulty and pauses in breathing, then it may well be sleep apnea. ... You might want to make a cassette tape of your child's sleep noises to bring with you.
• Children with sleep apnea do not get sound sleep. ... Obstructive sleep apnea can have a serious negative impact on a child's intellect and behavior. The common symptoms of sleep apnea are difficulty paying attention during the day, decreased academic performance, oppositional behavior, and restlessness. Not all kids with sleep apnea snore. Even when they do, sleep apnea is often overlooked. ...

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• And in fact, some people are quite significantly impaired by little sleep deprivation, whereas others are quite tolerant to large amounts of sleep deprivation. ...
• Probably the most consistent finding relates to what your sleep needs are on a daily basis. For instance, if people find themselves falling asleep before their normal bedtime, that's a sign that they might be sleep deprived. ...
• If they have difficulty arising in the morning — for instance, they have to activate their snooze alarm — and are continually oversleeping in terms of their designated waking time in the morning, that's also an indicator that they might be sleep deprived. ...
• Finally, if people sleep in on the weekends, which is termed rescue sleep, that's another indicator they might be sleep deprived. ...
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• SAN FRANCISCO -- June 24, 2002 -- Rises in inflammatory factors and decrease in performance are evident after one week of modest sleep deprivation, consisting of six hours of sleep per night.
• They recruited 25 young healthy men and women who had no history of sleep disorders. The volunteers were recorded in the sleep laboratory for 12 consecutive nights. During the baseline period, the first four nights, the subjects were allowed to sleep for eight hours each night. ... The baseline period was followed by one week of sleep restriction. During the sleep restriction period, subjects were awakened two hours earlier, at 4:30 a. ...

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