“Just Go To Sleep!” Sleep & Learning

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Research Article| January 01 2014 “Just Go To Sleep!” Sleep & Learning Jenny L. Williamson, Jenny L. Williamson 1Jenny L. Williamson is Project Director for How Do I Learn at the University of Washington, School of Nursing, T610A Health Sciences, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA 98195-7266; e-mail: jenlw@uw.edu. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Helen T. Buckland, Helen T. Buckland 2Helen T. Buckland is Project Director of Online Neuroscience Education about Drug Addiction at the University of Washington, School of Nursing; e-mail: trezbuck@uw.edu. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Susanna L. Cunningham Susanna L. Cunningham 3Susanna L. Cunningham is Professor at the University of Washington, School of Nursing; e-mail: susannac@uw.edu. For questions about this article, please contact Jenny L. Williamson at jenlw@uw.edu. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The American Biology Teacher (2014) 76 (1): 57–58. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2014.76.1.12 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jenny L. Williamson, Helen T. Buckland, Susanna L. Cunningham; “Just Go To Sleep!” Sleep & Learning. The American Biology Teacher 1 January 2014; 76 (1): 57–58. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2014.76.1.12 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe American Biology Teacher Search Does it matter that children and adolescents are sleeping more than an hour less per night than they did a century ago? (Matricciani et al., 2011). Could this difference influence their learning or other aspects of their lives? The answer to each of these questions is a resounding YES. We explore relationships between sleep, learning, and health, starting with basic information about sleep, which occurs in five phases: stages 1–4 and REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Stage 4, slow-wave sleep (based on electroencephalograph measurements) occurs mostly in the first half of a night’s sleep; REM sleep occurs more during the second half (Figure 1). Falling asleep, we start in stage 1 and then move progressively though stages 2–4 and into REM. Each cycle lasts about 90 minutes. All five stages of sleep – each with its own changes in neurophysiology – facilitate some aspect of... You do not currently have access to this content.