SA: Study shows sleep can impact on school results

AAP General News (Australia)
08-08-2008
SA: Study shows sleep can impact on school results

Research has found lack of sleep can affect the working memories of children .. impacting
on their academic ability and dragging down their grades.

MICHAEL GRADISAR .. sleep researcher at Flinders University .. has completed a study
of adolescent children .. with the results going against previous investigations which
found school kids could cope with getting less than eight hours sleep.

The difference this time is that Dr GRADISAR'S study asked the students to complete
more complex activities .. rather than just simple memory tasks.

He says children who have insufficient sleep display an impaired ability to encode
.. store and retrieve information .. with implications for subjects like spelling and
mathematics.

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KEYWORD: SLEEP (ADELAIDE)

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