Sleep deprivation may be more serious than you

“We use Thomas Edison Light Bulb to Invade the Night”

-Russell Foster

Study or Sleep

That ONEperson who Keeps you up?

RealityPsychosocial Demands

College StudentsThere is an Issue

“Most college students are sleep deprived, as 70.6% of students report obtaining less than 8 hours of sleep”

What happens when sleep?

Educate

Pineal Gland Melatonin

Why you Should Sleep?

Effect on Memory

Guru of the college sleep crusade is James Maas*48 years taught more than 65,000 students in Cornell University’s most popular class — a sleep focused version of introductory psychology.

*Maas experimented on his students, asking them to wear sleep-monitoring headbands and showing them magnetic resonance images of the brains of sleep-deprived college students. “You can see that nothing is going on in their brains,” Maas said. “Literally nothing.”

Foster view on sleep, “if you don’t sleep essentially you never get there”

This study purpose is to Test the impact of sleep on students’ memory, learning, and potential academic performance

Some Students “pull all nighters in Hope to improve grades”

Second Group: Non-Sleep Deprived Results: Improvement over the Next 4 days

First Group: sleep deprived for 30hrs. With 2 day recoveryResults: NO significant improvement

Groups Rated Themselves: Despite sleep Deprived performing worse, sleep-deprived subjects felt they had better concentration, effort, and performance than did non-sleep-deprived subjects

Visual Discrimination

Investigating if improvement correlated with time or time spent in sleep?

Second Group: 12-hour period that included sleep. Result: After a night of sleep, subjects’ performance improved by 18%. Subjects tested at 10 pm initially, then retested after sleep, also had a significant improvement in performance

First Group:12-hour period of wakefulnessResult: Subjects tested at 10 am and then retested at 10 pm without sleep showed no significant change in performance.

Motor Task

“The Data from this Research suggest that sleep, and not just time, is required for learning and memory consolidation. It may be possible that there is a window for potential learning that requires sleep, and that this opportunity for learning may not be salvaged even after sleep is recovered.”

Drowsy Driving

*“Sleep-related accidents represent up to 20% of all traffic accidents in industrial societies”- Pierre published 2006

* 32% “100,000 car accidents in the U.S are reported due to sleep” –Foster filmed 2013

Lack of Adequate sleep Affects your

Mood & Stress

An article called More Slumber Time Means Better Performance in Class states, ““When you find depression, even when you find anxiety, when you scratch the surface 80 to 90 percent of the time you find a sleep problem as well,” said University of Delaware psychologist Brad Wolgast.

So what should I do?

Get your Body Ready for Slumber 1. Chamomile Tea?2. Lower the light in your

bedroom 3. Turn off your phones &

computers

Solution: Just turn OFF the Lights at Night

Crave Caffeine (Stimulants)

Stay away after 12p.m

Wine helps SleepAlready Messed up your Circadian Rhythms

Wrong “According to circadian neuroscientist Russell Foster Alcohol sedates you and Mimics biological sleep” Harm Memory consolidation!

1. Educated you on Sleep

2. How sleep effects Mental Health

3. The correct way to approach the sleeping issue

Think Twice Next time

Add Sleep to your Agenda!*make it happen treat it as a goal it’s not any less important than your things to do in the Day