Sleep Patterns and Requirements
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              Resources: Links and Books About Sleep


              Web Sites
              NOVA scienceNOW—Sleep
              www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3410/01.html
              Offers sleep-related resources, including additional activities, streamed video, and reports by experts.

              Are You a Lark, an Owl, or a Hummingbird
              www.nasw.org/users/llamberg/larkowl.htm
              Includes information about the sleep cycle, sleep requirements, the function of sleep, and sleep disorders.

              Clockwork Genes
              www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/clocks/index.html
              Contains four animations on biological clocks, pertinent articles, and an online biological clockworks exhibit.

              Information about Sleep
              www.science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih3/sleep/guide/info-sleep.htm
              Presents an excerpt from a book about daily rhythms and the body clock .

              Neuroscience for Kids
              faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chmemory.html
              Provides a variety of memory-related experiments.

              Power Nap Prevents Burnout; Morning Sleep Perfects a Skill
              www.nimh.nih.gov/Press/sleep.cfm
              Summarizes "power nap" and sleep studies that suggest sleep enhances some types of learning.

              Researchers Find the Snooze Button
              www.hhmi.org/news/sehgal20060608.html
              Describes research using fruit flies and the role of "mushroom bodies" on regulating sleep.

              Sleep Forms Memory for Finger Skills
              www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.182178199
              Describes results of a finger-to-thumb motor skill task. Findings indicate that sleep is important for consolidation of motor skill memories.

              Books                        

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              The Body Clock Guide to Better Health
              by Michael Smolensky and Lynne Llamberg. Henry Holt and Co., 2000.
              Discusses the importance of body rhythms in relation to health.

              The Promise of Sleep
              by William C. Dement and Christopher Vaughan. Dell, 2000.
              Describes sleep disorders and discusses the importance of sleep.

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