Essays on Sleep Deprivation Page 2

According to the National Sleep Foundation, the average adolescent needs about 8 to 9 hours of sleep to be healthy. However, only 15 percent of teens report getting this amount of sleep each night. This means that about 85 percent of adolescents are experiencing frequent sleep deprivation. The epidemic of adolescent sleep deprivation affects almost…

In societies built upon the production of goods and services, personal health is not deemed a necessity, but a luxury. While the term “personal care” is broad, one of the most important factors to consider is sleep. Many individuals are sleep deprived- this is not to say that people are unable to sleep at all-…

When not getting enough sleep one’s body loses out on the key things that sleep provides. Sleep is important in keeping both the mind and body healthy. While sleeping the brain allows time to “shape all memories and make the connections between events, feelings, and experiences” (Why is Sleep so Important). Sleep is necessary in…

According to Matthew Walker, Professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, “the two most common triggers of chronic insomnia are psychological:  emotional concerns, and  emotional distress” (Walker 244). In other words, worry and anxiety. The consequences of insomnia or lack of sleep were a health concern in Shakespeare’s England just…

Depression, memory impairment, aggression, and shortened attention spans are all negative traits that no one wants to deal with. However, these traits are also seen in the majority of teenagers who struggle from the harmful disease of sleep deprivation. Teenagers do not get nearly enough sleep at night, and there is a simple solution. All…

Introduction As someone who only sleeps barely three hours each night reading about sleep has been quite fascinating, and I’ve grown to fear much of what this research found. This study found that humans can indeed handle many days of continues sleeplessness at the expense of deteriorating health and effectiveness, as well as how we…

Set 1, Part 1 My goals for this part of my primary research is to establish the issue of how a students’ lack of sleep impacts the child’s morning at school. The results will come directly from the child. This is important in my final project to show how this can affect a child and…

Many people nowadays love being on a phone. On average time teens, these days spend nine hours on a phone in a day. People check phones over three hundred times a day on an average day. Technology has become bigger and better throughout the past twenty years. Excessive phone usage has become and epidemic crisis….

Introduction Studying the impact sleep, or rather a lack of sleep, will have on the development of college students in the cognitive, emotional, social, and physiological development domain. Emerging adulthood – in between phase between adolescence and early adulthood. Sleep is a critical aspect of life – right amount of sleep shapes life as students…

“Sleep is such a luxury, which I can’t afford.” (Sikarwar, 1989) Some of us get eight hours, while some of us get six hours, and some individuals are even lucky to get four hours of sleep. How many are you getting? Sleep is important to living and maintaining a happy and healthy lifestyle throughout our…