Delayed School Start Time Associated With Improvements in Adolescent Behaviors
This document is part of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine in which Judith A. Owens and some of her colleagues studied a high school in Rhode Island. They were seeing if a change in start time in school would do any difference to the performance in the school of the students. They were allowed to do this in a high school in Rhode Island. They changed the start time from 8:00 AM to 8:30 AM. The results of this experiment were incredible. Students getting less than seven hours of sleep a night was decreased amazingly by a 19.4 percent. Students who thought themselves depressed or unhappy decreased also from 65.8% to 45.1%. Also the percent of students who felt annoyed or irritated throughout the day decreased from 84% to 62.6%. I believe that if this change in time would be done in our school many things would change significantly. I would prefer to wake up later in the morning since we are more willing to learn than waking up at a normal time.
Why Does Lack of Sleep Affect Us Differently? Study Hints It May Be in Our Genes
The study that was carried away by Namni Goel, from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia says that there is a gene that has to do with the way lack of sleep affects us. They decided to test 92 adults without the gene DQB1*0602 and 37 adults with that gene. They will give them two nights in which they will sleep ten hours and five nights in which they will sleep for only 4 hours. The adults with the gene were more sleepier and tired than those who did not have the gene. They also woke up more times than those without the gene. I believe that this gene would be an explanation of why some people sleep more than others but still are more fatigued than those who slept less.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025161023.htm
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Being A Night Owl In High School Is Linked With Lower College GPA
Jennifer Peszka, from the Hendrix College made a research with her colleagues on if being awake until late hours will affect your GPA. The study was done to 89 students from 17 to 20 years old who were ready to start their freshman year in college. 34 others were tested as they finished their freshman year. An average GPA for a night owl is of 2.84 in the first year in comparison to the ones who were not, which had 3.18. I believe that sleeping late will have some effect in your grades whatsoever. Sleep is very important and you cannot stop sleeping what you need to sleep well to be performing at normal levels.
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