Sleep medicine

Stress pervaded the stuffy windowless room, and the only light was the glow emanating from my computer screen. I wanted to sleep, but the mission demanded that I continue. Via the lens of a drone, while observing numerous children playing near the target’s residence, I reflected upon certain aspects of my own childhood. As a child my mother always encouraged me and said I could be or do anything. However, I never imagined that I would work in a windowless, high-security facility and hold a Top Secret

health of teenagers because of short and long-term effects. Everyone knows, or has heard, that on average teenagers should obtain at least 8 hours of sleep, and some even say the minimum should be 9 hours. However, “according to the National Sleep Foundation, only 14% achieve this goal, and approximately 70% of adolescents obtain less than 8 hours of sleep on a typical weeknight,” says Ph.D. holder Dr. Julie Boergers. Currently, only about 40% of US high schools start before 8:00 A.M. and many even start

early considering most teens don’t get the opportunity to fulfill their sleep needs. This is often caused by homework, a busy social life, extracurricular activities, and family all combined. Sleep is well needed, but the necessary sleep amount is lost with early start times. Additionally, current school schedules are not benefiting teens; it comes with discouraging effects, there is evidence to support this. The National Sleep

been a debate on what is the right amount of sleep to get. Rosie Osmun says that over sleeping is over nine hours. Two percent of the population over sleeps naturally it is normal for their bodies to sleep that much. In fact they would suffer from the effects of under sleeping if they only got the amount of sleep as is suggested for the rest of the population. Most people well as most professionals suggest that nine hours is the right amount of sleep to get for the average person. People tend to

during certain stages of sleep. There are many myths based on the ideas of why the human brain dreams. Many believe that what happens in the brain at night is the experiences that the human body goes through during the daytime while the body is awake putting it all together into one's dreams while the body is at rest at night. However, reams affect, and are affected by, daily life. How it all begins, the working of dreams, the foundation of dreaming all starts with REM sleep, where all the dreaming

Another significant benefit of learning music is that it has the ability to change the perspective of the listener. “Music is not only able to affect your mood -- listening to particularly happy or sad music can even change the way we perceive the world, according to researchers from the University of Groningen” (U of G 1). Music has a way of affecting those who are listening in a certain way, people choosing a song based on how they feel at that very moment. Although there are many genres of music

percent of the whole world suffers from Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder (“REM Behavior Disorder and Sleep”). Even though only a small percent of people have it, it is a serious condition. Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder is vividly acting out dreams, and can be a serious and dangerous disorder. Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder is a series of events that happen while sleeping that are unwanted (“REM Sleep Behavior Disorder-Overview & Facts”). People who have this disorder

Why Sleep Really Matters “On average, most college students get 6 - 6.9 hours of sleep per night” (“Sleep Rocks! ...get More of It!”). Sleep is something that not many people think about, whether they do or not doesn’t really matter; what matters is that sleep is a big part of everyday life that is required to live a sustainable life. While most people believe sleep to be a time for your body to rest, actually it is when one’s body is working the hardest (“Why Do We Need Sleep?”). Sleep is no longer

ZZZ Sleep is something we all have in common, and perhaps also something that we know the least about. We have a vague idea about what sleep is: it's what we do when we're not awake. In a way sleep is one of life's biggest mysteries, even though we spend about a third of our lives doing it! Sleep affects our daily life. Students who are sleep-deprived are very likely to have problems in school. A child might fall asleep in class or have attention and/or concentration issues. He or she might be cranky

nor physically ready to function at seven in the morning, let alone learn and study. High school timings in the United States must be delayed by at least an hour. Thus allowing the students to maintain a healthy body by getting sufficient amount of sleep, enabling them to learn the content with well-rested minds, and relieving them of stress and/or frustration caused by the excess amount of homework given each night along with their involvement in extracurricular activities. Having a healthy body