Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Discovery Essay Topic
For my essay topic I plan to do something relating to sleeping. The question I intend to answer will be “How does the lack of sleep affect one’s mood and behavior?” This is a topic that is very relatable to me and probably most other college students. I know that for me, I typically only end up with a few hours of sleep each night. My mom and everyone else always tell me that I need more sleep, but what really are the long-term affects of lacking sleep?
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Angela, this is a great topic. I wrote a news article about this very topic several years ago--there's a wealth of research out there on the long term effects of sleep deprivation. Try googling "National Sleep Foundation" for information on sleep-related research and links to other resources(there are all sorts of recent studies that investigate what happens in our brains while we sleep, and the relationship between different stages in the sleep cycle and the consolidation of memory/learning). Also, there's all sorts of research and writing out there on the way sleep deprivation affects relationships and cognition (learning/brain processes). You might even consider contacting someone in the neurology department or counselling center here at TCU to see if you might ask them a few questions (interviewing is a valid form of research for this kind of assignment--I encourage you to look beyond traditional, text-based resources when doing your research). Okay, this comment is long enough :) Good luck!
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