Sleep Articles

 

Five Signs You Have a Parasomnia.  Walking, Talking, Eating can Happen When People Think They're Fast Asleep.
http://snoozeorlose.com/images/FiveSigns.pdf

 

Later School Start Times: From ZZZZs to As: A Growing Body of Evidence Demonstrates that Growing Bodies Benefit from More Sleep
http://4lakidsnews.blogspot.com/2010/08/later-shool-start-times-from-zzzzs-to.html

Experts Say Teens Losing Sleep Over Technology

http://cfc.wjla.com/videoondemand.cfm?id=18500

 

Children's Media Use and Sleep Problems: Issues and Unanswered Questions

http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/7674.pdf

 

Creating a Sublime Sanctuary

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_552633.html

 

7 Myths About Sleep

http://www.quickandsimple.com/article.php?id=538&menu=&menu_cat

 

Is Your Teen Sleep Deprived?

http://www.teenagerstoday.com/articles/5203.php

 

Sleep-Full Schedule?

 http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=82405&paper=0&cat=109

 

Americans Get Too Little Sleep And Everyone Has An Excuse

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118057302987819414-search.html?KEYWORDS=SUE+SHELLENBARGER&COLLECTION=wsjie/6month

 

The New Cost of Sleep

http://70.47.124.114/node/250 

 

Does School Start Too Early?

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=72795&paper=61&cat=112

Non-Fiction: The Bed's Just Right Without You

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9352392

Association between Morningness-Eveningness and Behavioral/Emotional Problems among Adolescents

http://jbr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/22/3/268
This recent article from the Journal of Biological Rhythms, June 2007, studied 1332 adolescents and documents the association between 'eveningness'� and teen emotional/behavioral problems and risk taking behaviors.  It is a particularly notable article because of the very large number of students who were studied and the fact that students were recruited randomly from the school system.  Although sleep loss alone may not be the sole factor accounting for these problems it is certainly a contributing factor.  Parents should be aware that 'night owl'� teens may be at greater than average risk for emotional problems including suicidality, substance abuse and other emotional/behavioral issues.  Addressing teen sleep problems AND acknowledging and treating emotional/behavioral problems will improve teen health and wellbeing.

Helping Teens Make Peace with Sleep:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7005846

High Schools Starting Later to Help Sleepy Teens

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6896471

Links to Articles on Later School Start Times

 

SLEEP
http://sleepinfairfax.org/research.html

 

National Sleep Foundation
http://www.sleepfoundation.org/hottopics/index.php?secid=18&id=315

 

Schools Waking up to Teen's Unique Sleep Needs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901561.html

 

Frontline: inside the teenage brain
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/from/

 

Later School Starts
http://www.schoolrenewal.org/strategies/i-sleep-mo.html

 

Advantages of Delaying High School Start Times
http://library.thinkquest.org/25553/english/well/ages/teen/hspro.shtml

 

West Windsor and Plainsboro Today
http://homepages.wwptoday.com/advocates/laterschool/

 

Later School Start Benefits Teens
http://www.mercola.com/2001/sep/12/school.htm