Essays on Sleep Deprivation

Imagine having an important exam tomorrow that you didn’t study for. You decide to drink coffee to help support the late-night studying. After intense studying your mind is fried and now needs to recuperate from the mental strain. After laying down for a couple of minutes your alarm goes notifying that you only have ten…

Everything around us, including ourselves, all involve biology in some sort of way. Sleeping is something that every person enjoys and desires because they are resting avoiding stress etc. However, some people struggle to sleep are waking up showing up to school or work so tired because they either stayed up all night or just…

Introduction Ringing phones, blinding lights turning on and off constantly, and loud conversations going on in the background or even right in front of you, this does not sound like the ideal environment for a patient to get a peaceful night’s sleep. Unfortunately for a patient that has been admitted to the hospital, this is…

Sleep deprivation has been around since the dawn of time. In 16th century Scotland, it was used to test and torture accused witches. It was a popular form of confession-eliciting torture called “waking the witch.” After staying awake for days, their hallucinations caused them to spin false tales of flying and shapeshifting into animals. Marie…

Introduction The research question for this paper seeks to answer to what extent science supports the proposition that school hours should be changed during teenage years. Sleep deprivation in adolescents is now recognised globally as an important health issue. Data has proven that in countries such as the USA, Canada, Switzerland and Brazil, there is…

This paper examines the detrimental repercussions experienced amongst college students throughout their developmental life stage, emerging adulthood. Within the paper concerns which include the relation between sleep deprivation and the four primary disciplines of psychological development. Emerging adulthood, which is described as the period of life that encompasses an individual’s life from eighteen years of…

Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs prioritizes sleep as one of the most important factors in maintaining homeostasis and replenishing energy, an essential part of the recovery process for hospitalized patients. Presence Holy Family Medical Center’s DEU has been facing sleep deprivation issues amongst patients due to the number of visits by the nurses with medications…

‘A general consensus has developed from population-based studies that approximately 30% of a variety of adult samples drawn from different countries report one or more of the symptoms of insomnia: difficulty initiating sleep, difficulty maintaining sleep, waking up too early, and in some cases, nonrestorative or poor quality of sleep’ (Roth). Lack of proper sleep…

Abstract Insomnia and Stress impacts both neural development of central nervous structures, and they are involved in many clinical outcomes like sleep disorders, depression, cognitive impairment and other sleep disorders. Few authors investigated accurately relationship between implications of these two troubles above, and occurrence or complications of sleep quality. It has been showed that, the…

Abnormality in sleep is caused by a sleep disorder. The sleep disorder could be insomnia, sleep apnea (where you stop breathing for a few seconds), sleep talking, being narcolepsy (not enough orexin being produced) etc. I suffer from insomnia and it’s just been recently that It has started. Insomnia is defined as “Lack of sleep.”…