Articles About Sleep High School Students With A Delayed School Start Time Sleep Longer, Report Less Daytime Sleepiness

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH A DELAYED SCHOOL START TIME SLEEP LONGER, REPORT LESS DAYTIME SLEEPINESS                                                                                                                     

259 high school students completed the School Sleep Habits Questionnaire by Zaw W. Htwe, MD, from Norwalk Hospital's Sleep Disorders Center in Norwalk in Connecticut. The results of this questionnaire consist of an increase in sleep time in these students which helped them with no problem in school. The school started 40 minutes later than usual (from 7:35am to 8:15am ) which increased 33 minutes in the teenagers sleep time on school nights. In my opinion, schools should start about 40 minutes later as shown in the method so learning is more successful. If students are having problems in school it may be regarding their sleep time and therefore schools should be concerned about a student's health as they care for their learning. 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080609071202.htm

BEING A NIGHT OWL IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LINKED WITH A LOWER COLLEGE GPA:

Many students have been experiencing deterioration in sleep hygiene during their high school and college years. Jennifer Peszka from Hendrix College of Conway, Arkansas made a research with 89 beginning their freshman year in college and other who had finished their freshman year in a liberal arts college. The results were surprising. They consisted on students sleeping 41 minutes less than other classmates and their GPAs were decreasing below a B (evening types) and above a B (morning and intermediate types).  In my opinion, if teachers want to see an academicals improvement in these students, victims of sleep deterioration, they must help them, especially those in evening types who don’t receive the sleep they need by educating them on this issue.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090609072813.htm


WHY DOES LACK OF SLEEP AFFECT US DIFFERENTLY? STUDY HINTS IT MAY BE IN OUR GENES:

Namni Goel from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia preformed a study regarding DQB1*0602, a gene variant. 92 healthy adults and 37 adults with the gene variant were held for two nights with 10 hour sleep and five nights with a sleep restriction of 4 hours. The adults with the gene variant had less sleep desire and spent less time sleeping than those without the gene variant during the different nights. Though, people with this gene don’t have narcolepsy (a disorder that causes mayor sleepiness during the day). In my opinion, I think this article is very interesting since I learned that functioning with the time you slept has to do with your genes. I believe that people with the gene variant DQB1*0602 are very special because they can function properly sometimes even though they haven’t had the desire or the time to sleep.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101025161023.htm