Sleep Deprivation Among University Students

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Being a university student, all-nighter is something that is commonplace. Lake of sleep may change the personal attitude of these students and affect them in several ways. Not giving the body enough hours of sleeping causes sleep deprivation and lead to an individual not feeling comfortable and being unready to go on with her or his day. Sleep deprivation caused by many reason. For instance, university pressure, an unorganized daily schedule, and electronics also take a big part to make things worse and worse. Lack of sleep could badly affect a student’s mental performance and cause depression, also physical conditions may be negatively affected by increasing the risk of diabetes. In addition, academic performance also suffers through losing …show more content…

All the activities we do in our normal day controlled by our brains, in order to perform well and be more effective we need to give our brains enough time of rest. Lack of sleep may cause many psychiatric illnesses. Such as, stress and overthinking is what can destroy the student career and end it so fast by decrease the student confidence to make him introvert and unsocial. The universities tasks and exams need enormous effort to be accomplished. In order to be success in your field you need to be more responsible and prepared to face difficulties, managing your time as one of the most important thing to start with, to be clear your brain need to be prepared more than your body, so sleeping is the fuel for our brains as much as you sleep and give the brain enough time to rest as good as the brain be more active and alert. According to the BBC news in reportage made by Dr.michael mosley, talks about the positive relationship between the memory and sleeping. That research state that during deep sleep your brain moves short-term memories, collected that day, into long-term storage, freeing up space in your brain to receive more, that means not getting enough time of sleep may lead to lose those memories. Moreover, lake of sleep negatively impact your ability to think straight and be more accurate in analyzing issues, sleep deprivation also have been consistently …show more content…

Young people needs at least 7 to 8 hours of sleeping daily. If they didn’t give them brains that amount of time then memory and ability to focus and concentrate as well as higher cognitive functioning is severely affected. That means spending all night studying without take a rest and have enough time of sleep make them sitting themselves up for a poor performance. Study done by Kelly, W. and 2 different colleagues (2001), they conjointly found that sleep deprivation greatly affects a student’s ability to perform well in their categories. This is evident through the students’ GPA’s. Kelly and colleagues rumored that folks who slept nine hours or additional during a 24-hour amount had considerably higher GPA’s than short sleepers who sleep six hours or less during a 24-hour amount. These short sleepers show a very bad result with a low GPA and having a lot of uncompleted work. More and more, all-nighter students find difficulties to catch up the morning classes and missing a lot of important lectures and even they can attend it they won’t get any benefit of being in the class because the brain will be unready to receive information, getting low grades and having issues with many subject all that for only one