Author Name
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Influence on school
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How much sleep is needed
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How sleep is beneficial
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Other important details needed
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Harris health system
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When they don’t sleep and stay up late the ability to remember material in class is at an all time low
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College students: 8-9 hours
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Could be at risk for developing insomnia, alcohol abuse, accidents
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Joshy Abraham
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With less sleep, students weren’t able to recognize mistakes made while taking tests
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Students with lack of sleep were at risk of insomnia and academic failure
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Greg Voakes
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8.5-9.5 hours a night. Found only 15 percent of college students do that
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Allows the brain to rest, tissue repair, growth, immune function
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Mood swings, zoning out, insomnia, narcolepsy, snoring, eating disorders, depression,
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AASM
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College students who pull “all-nighters” are more likely to have a lower GPA.
Bad performance on tests
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“Recent studies have shown that adequate sleep is essential to feeling awake and alert, maintaining good health and working at peak performance,”
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Negative impact on grades, “After two weeks of sleeping six hours or less a night, students feel as bad and perform as poorly as someone who has gone without sleep for 48 hours. New research also highlights the importance of sleep in learning and memory. Students getting adequate amounts of sleep performed better on memory and motor tasks than did students deprived of sleep.”
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Polling questions
- What time do you usually go to bed and if it’s past 1am what is the reason?
- What time do you wake up?
- Have you been doing well in school?
- Do you feel tired throughout the day?
- Do you believe that academic performance is affected by sleep?
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