Studies connect lack of sleep to accidents
A National Sleep Foundation (NSF) poll, researchers found that more than two out of every three children ages 10 and under have experienced some type of sleep problem.
Sleeping Disorders come in many types and kinds, various of studies have also been conducted about such too but sleeping disorders are still common and are still uncontrollable.
by: Alliyah Dutchess Lopez
Adults complaint of Insomnia
If sleeping disorders disturb
kids at night, on some other
bedrooms and houses, it
does the same thing even
to adults.
As many as 30 to 35
percent of adults complain
of insomnia.
- http://sleepeducation.org/essentials-in-sleep/insomnia -
by: Alliyah Dutchess Lopez
Sleep Deprivation awakes victims
Luke (not his real name) had a hard time staying awake in his classes. He thought it was because math and science weren't his favorite courses. But there was something more serious going on.
Luke had obstructive sleep apnea, a sleep disorder that causes periods when breathing stops (apneas), and interrupts deep sleep. Luke's doctor recommended that he have his tonsils and adenoids removed. Within several weeks of having the outpatient surgery, Luke was sleeping soundly at night and feeling alert and productive at school during the day.
Sounds familiar doesn’t it? These days, sleeping at school, intentionally or not, is common, in this case, the given situation was just a normal thing for the others and yet it leads to such instances unexpectedly.
by: Alliyah Dutchess Lopez
Restless people rejected by rest
For almost two decades, Philip Skeates woke up dog tired, even though he had just spent a good 12 hours in bed. He would get up for breakfast, then stagger back to bed until noon. By eight at night he was nodding off.
"I couldn't concentrate and I was ratty with my family. I couldn't understand it because I would fall asleep in my chair by 8pm and not get out of bed for 12 hours. But in fact I was hardly getting any sleep at all. It was miserable for me and it just wasn't fair on my family."
Skeates was diagnose one of the most cautious sort of sleeping disorder. He may seem to be getting too much sleep but believe it or not, studies concluded that every night, he only gets less than 15 minutes of sleep.
6 Strange and Terrifying Sleep Disorders
Posted by Kevin Phillips
Sleep is supposed to be that blissful part of our day where we allow our bodies and minds time to relax so that they can repair themselves leaving us energized and ready to tackle the next day. For some people with certain rare sleep disorders however, strange things happen during sleep. Things so strange that they can be at best terrifying for the sufferer, and at worst, deadly.
Here is a look at 6 terrifying and strange sleep disorders:
Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder is associated with an increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease. For the first time, researchers demonstrate that inflammation may play a key role.
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is connected with frightening dreams combined with nighttime motor activity. In other words people with these kind of dreams act out what they are dreaming.
Researchers have found that RBD is linked to an increased risk of developing Parkinson's disease later in life.
The condition can precede Parkinson's disease and other dementias by half a century. In fact, most people with RBD will go on to develop Parkinson's, Lewy body dementia, or multiple system atrophy.
​RESTLESS SLEEP PREDICT PARKINSON’S DISEASE
CHRONIC LACK OF SLEEP INCREASES RISK SEEKING
Young adults have a natural sleep requirement of about 9 hours a day on average, older adults 7.5 hours. Many people in western societies, however, get considerably less sleep. According to studies, about one-third of the persons surveyed in several industrial countries reported too little sleep.
Not enough sleep leads to riskier decision-making and identified a further critical consequence of a chronic lack of sleep: increased risk-seeking. If the students slept only 5 hours a night for a week, they displayed clearly riskier behavior in comparison with a normal sleep duration of about 8 hours.
While a single sleepless night had no effect on risk-seeking, 11 of 14 of the subjects behaved significantly and increasingly riskier as the week of a reduced sleep duration went on. The students assess their risk-taking behavior to be the same as under regular sleep conditions.
IRREGULAR SLEEPING PATTERNS LINKED TO POORER ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
Research has analyzed variations in sleep patterns including number of hours slept, quality of sleep, and sleep-wake times, and found an association with mental damages, health and performance. Few studies have considered the effects of regular sleep patterns.
Researchers studied 61 persons from Harvard College for 30 days using the diaries. They computed sleep regularity using the sleep regularity index (SRI), a devised metric. Researchers examined the relationship between the SRI, sleep duration, distribution of sleep across the day, and academic performance during one semester.
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by: Zedjy Angelo Castillo
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LACK OF SLEEP COULD CAUSE MOOD DISORDERS IN TEENS
Chronic sleep deprivation involves staying up late, and waking up early for school and become a way of life for the teens, especially with the increasing use of phones and tablets late into the night. But this social jet lag poses some serious health and intellectual health risks.
New research finds that for teenagers, even a short period of sleep restriction could, over the long-term, raise their risk for depression and addiction.
Peter Franzen and Erika Forbes from the University of Pittsburgh's invited some participants, aged 11.5-15 years, into a sleep lab for two nights. Half the participants slept for 10 hours, while the other half slept only four hours.
Each time they visited the lab, the participants underwent brain scans while playing a game that involved receiving financial rewards of $10 and $1. At the end of each visit, the teens answered questions that measured their emotional functioning, as well as
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by: Alliyah Dutchess Lopez
1. Kleine-Levin Syndrome (KLS)
3. REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
5. Exploding Head Syndrome (EHS)
2. Sleep Paralysis
4. Sexomnia
6. Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI)
SLEEPLESS PEOPLE LIKELY TO SUFFER ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
Sleeping less than the recommended eight hours a night is associated with repetitive thoughts like those seen in anxiety or depression, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.
Binghamton University Professor of Psychology Meredith Coles and Jacob Nota assessed the timing and duration of sleep in individuals with moderate to high levels of repetitive negative thoughts. The research participants were exposed to different pictures intended to trigger an emotional response, and researchers tracked their attention through their eye movements.
The researchers discovered that regular sleep disturbances are associated with difficulty in shifting one’s attention away from negative information. This may mean that inadequate sleep is part of what makes negative intrusive thoughts stick