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Hours Of Sleep Research Paper

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Your sleep is so important! And yet, when it comes to self-care and time management, sleep time is often what we sacrifice to get just-one-more-thing done. While that "one-more-thing" may seem very important in the moment, when it sets you back, sleep-wise, that deficit affects everything that follows. The amount of sleep that each of us needs varies from person to person. In addition, our sleep needs change as we move through the different developmental stages of our lives. But however many hours of sleep you need, I suspect that it's a safe guess that you don't often hit that number. (And I suspect it's also a safe guess that you may not actually know how much sleep you need.) In a recent study in Britain, it was noted that hours of sleep …show more content…

The team also saw increases in the activity of genes associated with diabetes and risk of cancer. The reverse happened when the volunteers added an hour of sleep." The study also looked at the different types of sleep, their timing and their functional impact on mind and memory. Deep sleep, for example, is a time when memories are moved "from short-term storage into long-term storage, allowing us more short-term memory space for the next day. If you don't get adequate deep sleep then these memories will be lost." You can read the full article by clicking this link. REM sleep, on the other hand, is a time for processing emotions. Here's how that works, according to the researchers: "During REM sleep an extraordinary thing happens. One of the stress-related chemicals in the brain, noradrenalin, is switched off. It's the only time, day or night, this happens. It allows us to remain calm while our brains reprocess all the experiences of the day, helping us come to terms with particularly emotional events." Lack of sleep, as you can tell from the above, is going to cut into important internal activities that have a profound effect on how you feel and how you function the next

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