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Seasonal Affective Disorder B
1,036 wordsScientists Shed Light on the Winter Blues When a case of the winter blues feels more like depression, you may be suffering from SAD. SAD stands for Seasonal Affective Disorder. SAD is a seasonal disruption of mood that occurs during the winter months and ceases with the beginning of spring. Symptoms usually begin in September when days begin to shorten, and last through the winter into March when the days begin to lengthen again. The symptoms of SAD usually include episodes of depression, hypers...
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Hours Of Sleep Sleep Deprivation
1,911 wordsTeenagers grow more and more busy by the minute. Unfortunately, this means less and less sleep. Sleep deprivation can cause many serious negative side effects to teenagers already harried lives. These side effects can range from such common problems as sleepiness during the day to more serious problems such as headaches, to the most extreme effect of all death. Misdiagnosed or undiagnosed, sleep deprivation is one of the hardest disorders to detect. Truthfully, the only way to correct it is by a...
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Common Sleep Disorders Insomnia Narcolepsy
627 wordsPeople who suffer from the most common sleep disorder, insomnia, have difficulty falling or staying asleep. Sleepiness caused by insomnia reduces concentration and slows reaction time during waking hours, leading to reduced productivity and accidents. One in three adults experiences some degree of insomnia at one time or another, especially during periods of stress. Longer-lasting cases of insomnia, called chronic insomnia, are less common and may be caused by a number of factors in addition to ...
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Seasonal Affective Disorder People Who Suffer
1,072 wordsSeasonal Affective Disorder Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, is a common problem of people living in northern United States. People who are affected by this disorder commonly suffer from depression, lethargy, inability to concentrate, overeating and weight gain. People from the north tend to suffer more from this disorder because of the shortened days. It appears, that due to the deficiency of sunlight some people suffer from these symptoms. The shortened days have a hormonal effect on the b...
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Winter And Summer Sad Sufferers Light
736 wordsHow Moods Are Affected By The Sun Jared Sousa 1 / 20 / 96 Descriptive Research Thesis: The amount of sun people receive affects their mood. A young woman lies asleep on a cold, overcast winter morning. At 4 A. M. , a faint incandescence radiates from a light bulb placed near her bed. The light gradually gains intensity and covers until 6 A. M. , when the woman awakes. She had just experienced a simulated dawn of a new day. After being treated with this for several days, the womans annual winter ...
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Form Of Depression Bipolar Disorder
874 wordsIn today s society, we are faced with or placed in many unpredictable and stressful situations. However, many of us manage to properly analyze the situations and maintain our sanity, experiencing only a mild form of depression, if any. Others may encounter similar situations and become mentally depressed. Some reasons for being depressed are normal, such as, a death of a family member, parents divorce, or loss of job; but, depending on how long you are depressed, as a result of these mis fortuna...
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Men And Women Percent Of Women
772 wordsAn article in Scientific American called " Why are so many women depressed" , by Ellen Liebenluft, focused on the reason why females are more depressed than males. First, Depression comes with a variety of symptoms. For example, a person suffering from depression may experience sleep disturbances, hopelessness, and feeling of worthlessness, difficulty concentrating, experience fatigue and sometime even delusions. Depression is very common among women. If affects nearly 20 percent of wo...
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Pineal Gland Herbal Medicines
1,654 wordsHerbal Extracts and Hormones Herbs are found everywhere, and hormones are a natural product of everyones body. The production of hormones increases and decreases with the age and development of the individual. Due to the nature of hormones and the ongoing research still being done, this article will investigate only two hormones that are in common use by the everyday person. Herbs, on the other hand, can be found from California to China and as far as consumers are concerned, they are now mainst...
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30 P M Sleep Deprivation
718 wordsHow Are Your Sleeping Habits? American teenagers are getting far less sleep than needed for them in order to function properly. The health, behavior, and academic performance of teenagers are suffering as a result of their sleep deprivation. According to parents reports in the 1999 nationwide survey, Sleep in America, sixty percent of children under the age of eighteen complained of being tired during the school day. Fifteen percent of these children also reported falling asleep during school (p...
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Pineal Gland Autoimmune Diseases
2,133 wordsSet deep in our brains is a tiny gland called the pineal gland. This tiny gland is in charge of the endocrine system, the glandular system that controls most of our bodily functions. The pineal runs our body clocks+, and it produces melatonin; the hormone that may prove to be the biggest medical discovery since penicillin, and the key to controlling the aging process. The pineal gland controls such functions as our sleeping cycle and the change of body temperature that we undergo with the changi...
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Sleep Disorders Sleep Patterns Melatonin
241 wordsResearchers have found melatonin levels do not decline with age, indicating the hormone has nothing to do with sleep disorders in older adults as previously believed. For many older Americans, going to bed doesnt necessarily mean going to sleep. As we age, researchers say, our internal clocks change, and we dont sleep as deeply or as long as we did when we were younger. Over the past two decades, small studies have concluded that levels of the hormone melatonin in the body decrease as we age, wh...
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Half An Hour Pineal Gland
605 wordsSLEEPY DAYS ARE OVER I have a dream said Martin Luther King Jr. But why was he able to have a dream? It is probably because he was able to get enough sleep, unlike the high-schoolers of today. Almost every high-schooler in the United States would agree, we need more sleep. At my high school on Southern Whidbey Island, school starts at the unbearable early time of 7: 30 am. That is just too early to start school. Most high schoolers dont even wake up until lunchtime; they simply just sleep throug...
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Sleep Wake Serotonin Levels
611 wordsSunlight is the most important survival factor in human life. Actually, it is the light from the sun at a speed of 186, 000 miles a second from a source 93 million miles away that rates with food, water and air support system on earth. (R. B. 2) The sun is a necessary factor in our lives that help our entire body function properly. Light is as effective as drugs, perhaps more so, writes Anna With-Justice of the Psychiatric Clinic in Basel, Switzerland. (Chamberlain 2) And a specialist in neurolo...
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