jueves, 4 de noviembre de 2010

Articles about Sleep

"Highschoo students with a delayed school start time sleep longer, report less daytime sleepyness."
Author: Zaw W. Htwe.
institution: Norwalk Hospital's Sleep Disorders Center in Norwalk
they tested a late start on students to see if it made a change on their daily sleepyness, they had them do a survey about sleep before and after. the students having late start said they did have more evergy, they slept  about 30 minutes more. i think this article is interesting because its an experiment id love to test everyday since I love to sleep a lot, but school wont let me.

"Beinga night owl in high school is linked with lower college GPA"
Author: Jennifer Peszka
Institution: Associated Professional Sleep Societies
they observed sleep hygiene in kids on highschool, and how it affected their GPA to study and perform in the eveing than midmorning. Because of theyre bad sleep hygiene, their GPA dropped when they wrote on the evening and was much higher when it was earlier. i think this article is very useful because now i know what to do and what not to do i the future.

"Starting highshool one hour later may reduce Teen traffic accidents"
Author: Barbara Phillips
They tested datime sleep differences when the have a late start and a normal start. teenagers have less daily sleepyness when they have late start. this gives them more evergy, and prevents car crashes. when they are tired, crash rates go higher so a good way to prevent is with enough energy. i think this article is useful to prevent car accidents, and to be informed and precautious of never driving wen youre sleepy.

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