Another physiological process that sleep deprivation can affect is the plasticity of the hippocampus. When applied in stressful environments‚ the amount of glucocorticoid production increases (McEwen‚ 1999). This increase in stress hormones correlates to the atrophy or the shrinkage of the hippocampal region. While this correlation is strongly related‚ other factors do in fact play a part in hippocampal atrophy. For example‚ the amount of dentate gyrus neurons in the brain could also have an effect
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3-24-15 Eng 101 Cynthia Dobbins Effects of sleep deprivation Sleep deprivation is a serious issue an estimated 50-70 million U.S. adults suffer from a sleep disorder. (CDC para.1) This is a problem that can effect anyone. Getting a good night’s rest is very important to having a productive day‚ not getting enough sleep is a lot like wasting a day. There have been a countless number of studies on sleep deprivation to back up the fact that getting enough sleep every night is a fundamental necessity to
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Need for Sleep and effects of Sleep Deprivation on Cognitive Performance Poojan Nikunjkumar Mehta 2012CS10241 Siddarth KM 2012CS10256 Index Terms Sleep‚ Sleep deprivation‚ memory consolidation‚ temporal memory‚ decision making‚ visual processing. Introduction Sleep is an everyday phenomenon‚ which many people take for granted. It is very important to know its need and what happens when we don’t sleep properly. This article is aimed at studying different theories regarding sleep and the
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snooze button every morning in order to wake up on time is more than likely‚ suffering from sleep deprivation. It is a problem that can cause harm to the body and personality. Some of the most common health issues a person will endure is cognitive deficiencies‚ hypertension and weight gain. It has even been argued that sleep deprivation can affect you just as much as being drunk. Unfortunately‚ with lack of sleep come many unwanted side effects‚ including impaired cognitive skills needed to function
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Running head: Sleep Deprivation‚ Disorders and Drugs Sleep Deprivation‚ Disorders and Drugs Axia College of University of Phoenix There was a time when I was not getting sleep; it affected almost every aspect of my being and definitely my personality. Reading the text written by Pinel‚ I realize many of the descriptions of sleeplessness fit those very memorable‚ yet miserable days. My opinion on my reaction to sleeplessness concurred fairly well with the text‚ though I did not consider myself
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Sleep Deprivation and Judgement In this journal‚ Kyoungmin Cho‚ Christopher M. Barnes‚ and Cristiano L. Guanara ‚ the researchers were performing a quasi experiment to see if there was a relation between judges being tired and sentencing those who enter the courtroom. The researchers came up with the hypothesis that sleep deprived judges would sentence a person who committed a crime to a longer sentence than a judge that was well rested. For them to conduct this quasi experiment they used judges
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have shown that the optimum amount of sleep a person should get each night is seven to eight hours. Many people have trouble getting this amount of sleep. Between work‚ family obligations‚ and household chores‚ too often a person gets only a few hours of sleep a night. What effect does sleep deprivation have on people? Sleep deprivation has a definite effect on learning‚ memory‚ and the ability to think clearly. If a person is not able to get a full night’s sleep after learning something new‚ he will
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Our experiment had a lot of room for error. One of the factors that may have affected the results we received could be the level of fatigue each cadet was at. Sleep deprivation may have slowed the reaction time of some participants‚ it is true that reaction time gets slower when the subject is fatigued (Welford 1968‚ 1980). If the participants completed the tasks in a room full of noisy people or other distractions
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Speech for Students’ Chronic Sleep Deprivation Introduction: A. Attention Getting Opening: Over the past ten to twenty years‚ academic demands placed upon college students have increased significantly‚ this has lead to an increase in workload and amount of time needed to study for a specific course. Today‚ college students represent the most sleep-deprived division of the population in the U.S. ("Sleep and Memory"). According to Gayla Martindale‚ 63% percent of the students who attend college do not
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Sleep disruption can be defined as any essential deviation in sleep quantity‚ integration‚ or timing relative to the optimal sleep needed by a given individual (usually between seven and nine hours of uninterrupted sleep during the night). Sleep disruption is typically focused on total sleep deprivation‚ showing that skipping sleep completely leads to decrease vigilance‚ problems with cognitive control‚ and impaired mental flexibility (Kirzan and Herlache‚ 2015). There is a little research on sleep
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