Sentences with phrase «terms of their alertness»

«Every single high school student I have ever measured in terms of their alertness is a walking zombie,» says Cornell sleep expert James Maas.

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Out of the lab and into the bathroom: evening short - term exposure to conventional light suppresses melatonin and increases alertness perception.

«And I am telling you that in terms of agility, preparation, physical fitness, alertness and training objectives, I think we are gradually getting there.

Caffeine present in colas and lots of other carbonated drinks may have a positive impact on your alertness, however in the long - term.

Short - term treatment (up to three months) of prolonged - release melatonin was found to be effective and safe in improving sleep latency, sleep quality, and daytime alertness.

These reductions in alertness and performance were relatively minor in terms of percentage of the baseline values; in the performance of difficult tasks (e.g., driving a car or flying an airplane), however, even such minor impairments might have significant consequences.

Because of their relatively smaller brains, dogs are generally less perceptive of their environment (in terms of their senses of hearing, vision, and smell, for example), and have a lower state of alertness.

John Walsh, then director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif., described Ms. Tucker in especially apt terms in a 1993 article in The New York Times: «There's always been a social conscience in Marcia that's impatient and results in a kind of alertness you can just read across her forehead like a Jenny Holzer sign.»

In terms of studies regarding behavioral problems, one extensive meta - analysis of the relationship between sleep deprivation and cognition in school - aged children found a significant increase in behavioral problems in children with shorter sleep duration.25) Additionally, sleep deprivation resulted in a significant increment in alertness and emotional reactivity in children, which led to delinquency, long - term emotional and behavioral difficulties.26 — 28) Consistent with such findings, sleep deprived subjects were more alert to negative stimuli, 29) and more susceptible to exaggerated aggressive impulses.30) Emotional lability and impulsivity were all strongly correlated with sleep deprivation, 31) with the severity of emotional dysregulation worsening as a function of the degree of sleep restriction.32)