ZZZ's To A's
Academic Benefits of Sleep
The importance of sleep in college
- Getting enough sleep is vital to students' academic performance.
- Sleep loss leads to learning and memory impairment, as well as decreased attention and vigilance.
- The sleep state allows your brain to take in new information more fully and to better synthesize new experiences.
- As you sleep, your brain organizes and correlates memories, which increases your understanding and retention.
Effects of poor sleep among students
- Sleepiness and poor sleep quality affects university students' academic performance and daytime functioning.
- Students with symptoms of sleep disorders are more likely to receive poor grades.
- College students with insomnia have more mental health problems than college students without insomnia.
- Students with medical-related majors are more likely to have poor sleep quality.
- Students who pull “all-nighters” are more likely to have a lower GPA.
- Staying up late on school nights and making up for it by sleeping late on weekends results in poor classroom performance.