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                        

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.

*Provided by: Nova Teachers  

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