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Slow Learning Kids Linked to Lack of Sleep
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung July 5th, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Education, Sleep Issues.
The delicate stage of infants today is how fast they can learn things like talking and perception. While we all know that this varies, sleep has been identified as another contributor towards how fast a child can develop such learning abilities.
“Children are able to make the transition well if they are able to interact with peers and teachers and concentrate in class and take on the workload,” he said.
“If you have enough sleep, you have enough concentration … the brain is still growing, they are still taking in a lot of information,” Sydney Morning Herald quoted Jon Quach, lead researcher, as saying.
Lack of sleep contributes to child development and proper growth. Apparently being left out would be the intellectual development of a child. Monitor their sleeping habits and make sure that they get the proper shuteye. It can make a difference.
(Source) The Times of India
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Skipping Sleep can Create Mental Disorders
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung May 28th, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Issues.
If you are making a habit out of skipping sleep for the sake of doing more, you may want to reconsider that choice. Based on a study, skipping sleep is leaving potential room for mental deficiencies, probably because your brain may be taking too much load trying to keep you awake.
So just like any part of the human anatomy, continues abuse and depriving it of rest will result into one common thing; sudden breakdown and possibly bring with it dire consequences as far as sleep and mental disorders are concerned.
A new study suggests skimping on sleep can cause your brain to suddenly turn off.
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Goopta says losing just one night of sleep can make the brain prone to sudden shutdowns very quickly.
“You’ll be driving down the road thinking that you’re perfectly awake feeling competent but then all of a sudden you sort of flicker back and forth, and that can be a real problem,” said Goopta.
(Source) 680 News
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Can you Text While Sleeping?
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung May 15th, 2008 in SLEEP News, SLEEP Psychology, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Issues, Sleep Myths.
We have heard of various issues regarding sleepwalking and sleep driving but sleep-texting? Apparently this stems from the fact that a lot of people today are going crazy over texting, the modern way of communicating with anyone with the use of any mobile phone today.
Some people just cannot sit well without seeing their mobile phone beside them since anyone at any time may be texting them or perhaps on the other way around, sending messages at any moment they feel like by pushing the keypads of their phone.
Normally, we would find ourselves falling asleep and sleeping alongside our phones. But while we all know that we will fall asleep, is it indeed possible to send messages unknowingly to another person while we are in our slumber state?
But some sleep experts have another explanation for the sleep text messaging, particularly in those situations in which the text message is coherent. Some say the messages are written while the patient is awake, but they have amnesia for the event. “The `sleep texter’ may have actually been awake, but had not formed new memories for the event,” says Scott Fromherz, medical director of Westside Sleep Center in Tigard, Ore.
“There is a `built-in’ amnesia of sleep that occurs when the brain is briefly awakened for less than three minutes,” he says.
Thus, a person might wake up in the middle of the night, text someone, go back to sleep and have no recollection of the activity the next morning.
(Source) The Star.com
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Make Up for Sleep But Gradually
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung May 7th, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Issues, Sleep Myths.
When it comes to trying to make up for lost sleep, you should not really rush it in the way that most people believe it can be. The thing is, proper sleeping habits can only be achieved the natural way and time is sure to be a critical element towards putting your sleeping habits back towards its regular state.
Today, if you are not properly rested, sleep will come back to haunt and collect in the form of deteriorating health. It is a given that people today value sleep unlike before. Being productive is one thing but not being able to sleep in the way that people are traditionally known to be can lead to dire consequences which at most can damage health concerns for people today.
Sleeping too little messes with your mind and hurts your body.
Sleep not only makes you feel sharp and rested; it seems to play a key role in how the brain sorts out information and lays down long-term memories. And a lack of sleep has been associated with maladies ranging from cardiovascular disease to depression the CDC says.
(Source) Wall Street Journal
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A Reprieve for Sleep Deprived Patients
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung January 3rd, 2008 in How to sleep better, Narcolepsy, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Therapy.
We all know that sleep deprivation has been a going issue for most of us today and a lot of people, particularly the sleep specialists, are exhausting all means to find remedies connected with sleep deprivation problems today.
Apparently, some scientists from Wake Forest University have been able to determine another area of sleep deprivation. This largely deals with the brain secretions called Orexin-A. Whenever we are asleep, it usually follows that there are certain internal human body processes that occur and from the looks of it, this identified secretion of hypocretin-1 may yet help solve the growing issue of sleep deprivation and narcolepsy.
(Source) Orexin-A, also known as hypocretin-1, is a naturally occurring peptide produced in the brain that regulates sleep. It’s secreted by a small number of neurons but affects many brain regions during the day and people who have normal amounts of orexin-A are able to maintain wakefulness. When people or animals are sleep-deprived, the brain attempts to produce more orexin-A, but often without enough success to achieve alertness past the normal day-night cycle.
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