Davis, K. C. & Raizen, D. M. A mechanism for sickness sleep: lessons from invertebrates.
Guidance in providing sleep lessons for pupils aged seven to 16 was rolled out to teachers last month.
Kalinchuk AV, McCarley RW, Stenberg D, Porkka-Heiskanen T, Basheer R. The role of cholinergic basal forebrain neurons in adenosine-mediated homeostatic control of sleep: lessons from 192 IgG-saporin lesions.
After the sleep lessons (which looped in parents, teachers, and school administration to help reinforce the sleep goals), the kids slept 18.2 minutes longer per night on average and fell asleep quicker.
The changes in behaviours included, sleeping during lessons, talking about death, withdrawing from social interactions, exhibiting mood changes, truancy, and writing messages on "mixit".
There were changes in behaviours, such as sleeping during lessons, talking about death, withdrawing from social interactions, exhibiting mood changes, and writing messages on 'mixit' (a mobile instant messenger application developed in SA that runs on GPRS/3G mobile phones and allows you to communicate with other 'mixit' users on their cell phones).
Gabriel Purcell-Davis, 15, currently in year 10 and who will be one of the first to undertake the new routine, said: "I want to wake up in my bed, not in my maths lesson". Sleep expert Professor Francesco Cappuccio said everyone had a "ticking biological clock" that regulated a natural instinct to wake up and to go to sleep, but this was delayed in teenagers.
If he or she is kind and not strict about behavior, feel free to daydream or even sleep in the lesson - they won't mind.
That I can do all the things they say I should--take ballroom dance lessons, sleep more than seems efficient, hook and cross with the rest of the Body Combat babes--and still come up short on the name of the lady who religiously sits beside me in church, I am bewildered.
The Lesson? Making sleep a priority always makes juggling so many things at once much easier!
