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The National
Summit to Prevent Drowsy Driving register on website or call National Sleep
Foundation at (202) 347-3471
Sleep
Deprivation is Widespread at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School A
survey indicated that students got six-and-a-half hours of sleep the previous
night compared to National Sleep Foundation recommendation that teenagers
need 9 to 9 ¼ hours of sleep per night.
Later
School Start Benefits Teens, Study Concludes --
Washington Post article August 29, 2001, on a Minnesota study showing that
high school students are less likely to miss classes or stop coming to
school regularly if they can sleep later on school mornings. They also
got more sleep, got slightly better grades, and experienced less depression
after the school district switched from a 7:15 a.m. start time to 8:40
in 1997.
Arlington
County New Start Times -- Multiple pages on changes made by Arlington
County. New times are 8:15 for high schools, 7:50 for middle schools,
and between 8:00 and 9:00 for elementary schools. Click
here to read the proposal including the rationale for change.
Early
to Rise Makes it Tougher to Shine for Students -- Gazette article
by Leah Carlson on high school start times in Montgomery County, with mention
of WAKE UP
School
Start Time Study (1998 University of Minnesota Center for Applied Research
and Educational Improvement)
Waking
up to Danger of Sleep Deprivation One of our members,
who is Chief of Behavioral & Integrative Neuroscience Research Branch
and the Coordinator for Sleep Research at NIMH, said about this article
"There are a lot of articles on sleep around, but I found this one to be
particularly comprehensive and written in general terms so that it captures
a huge segment of where the research is at and what it tells us."
National
Sleep Foundation
New
Abstracts and Papers in Sleep free weekly current alerting service
for the sleep field. Subscribers to NAPS receive, each week, an E-mail
Alert of new citations in their specific Areas of Interest. NAPS Archives
contains all sleep and sleep-related papers for the current year.
The
road to danger: the comparative risks of driving
-- abstract of a Stanford Medical School study showing that the potential
risks of driving while sleepy are at least as dangerous as the risks of
driving illegally under the influence of alcohol
Epidemic
of Daytime Sleepiness Linked to Increased Feelings of Anger, Stress, and
Pessimism -- National Sleep Foundation Article
Sleep
Needs, Patterns and Difficulties of Adolescents: Summary of a Workshop
(Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE),
formerly known as the Commission of Behavioral and Social Sciences and
Education [CBASSE].
Sleep
for Science Sleep Research Lab
September
2000 Workshop (Article on Washington, D.C. workshop on the Sleep Needs,
Patterns and Difficulties of Youth, sponsored by the National Academy of
Medicine and National Research Council)
NIH
star sleeper campaign for young children
Awake
At the Wheel -- NIH site
Educating
Youth About Sleep and Drowsy Driving results of a workshop where
experts in adolescent sleep medicine, secondary education, and driver education
reviewed current research and education programs related to sleep, drowsy
driving, and teens.
Drowsy
Driving and Automobile Crashes NIH site
Montgomery
County Board of Education
Montgomery
County Superintendent of Schools
Washington Post 3-23-01 article on medical
residents, collectively the most sleep-deprived of American doctors,
and the increased risk of errors made because of this long overlooked problem.
National Sleep Foundation 2001
Sleep in America poll, which suggests many Americans are "living to
work" instead of "working to live."
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