focus and sleep deprivation

Wordless Wednesday: Sign this vet-sponsored petition demanding labor standards that prioritize sleep

November 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Veterans have a huge stake in the Right to Sleep movement. Many of our military personnel members come home from service overseas with trauma and sleep disorders that the VA fails, or even refuses, to treat. Ultimately it impacts them on the job, just as sleep deprivation does for millions of civilian workers. [...]

Sleep News Special Report || Drowsy Driving Awareness Edition: We need to stop falling asleep at the wheel

November 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Falling asleep at the wheel continues to trend as a major and alarming contributor to fatal vehicle accidents. Learn more with this special supplement focused on drowsy driving as a side effect of the fall time change. [...]

Surviving Harvey: Nobody actually sleeps through a hurricane

August 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sleep, like food and shelter, will be in short supply for many now and in the days and weeks that follow in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Please try to get your sleep when you can, however; sleep is an important ingredient in physical and emotional survival of trauma. [...]

Sleep Health Watchdog: Check out these change agents for better teen sleep

August 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Without the work of dedicated activists from the grassroots, the medical research field, and legislators, we might know a lot less about the sleep needs of teenagers and the disservice we do to this population when we ask them to start class before 830am. [...]

Controversial ideas in sleep health: Naps for high schoolers… Yay or Nay?

August 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

In the last few years, the rise of awareness about sleep deprivation among our teens has been a primary focus for those campaigning for later bell times for high schoolers. [...]

What happens when school kids don’t get enough quality sleep?

August 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Some temporary symptoms or behaviors of sleep deprivation, if not addressed by getting more and better sleep, can become long-term problems as well. In addition, more systemic medical concerns can and will arise if you don't address your child's sleep loss. [...]

News drip: More links revealing the dangerous dilemma of drowsy driving

August 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Drowsy driving accidents seem to be on the upswing but without more regulations, anti-drowsy driving laws, and an equally dangerous uptick in sleep deprivation, how are we ever going to make our roads safe again? [...]

Back to School… Already???

August 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

Back to School… already? Nobody wants to think about it, but for many families across the country, summer is almost over. Mid-August is start time for many districts, [...]

Sleep Fundamentals || F is for Fragmentation

July 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sleep Fundamentals: F is for Fragmentation [...]

Vitamin Zzz: Sleep Deprivation (poems by Cohen, Travelstead, Werstein)

July 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sleep deprivation is typically all about two things: the choice not to fall asleep due to work, social life, school, or some other external force, and the accumulation of lost sleep over time (sleep debt), which is what leaves us feeling sleep deprived... because we are. [...]