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Ann Plushest Murphy joins us now. This is astonishing! 15 minutes can change a B to an A, and they saw their test scores go up that much by changing the school time to 8:30. Why does it have that dramatic effect?

Well, the main reason is of course now we can look at kids' brains and what's fascinating is that we realize that it's not just they can't pay attention, all the things you wouldn't, to the, the related thing would be the result of sleep deprivation. Their brains are working progress until they're 21 years old. So a lot of learning happens when they're asleep. And so sleep deprivation has this exponential effect on learning. (Ah, just in the wire wing.) The University of Virginia said one of the things that the expert said, I thought was so astounding, was it has much more impact than lead exposure. In other words sleep deprivation really can impair a kid's learning more than lead exposure. I think we're more worried about drugs and alcohol as parents of teenagers, but we really have to start looking at how much sleep as a child they are getting.

Right, and you mentioned maybe hybrid activities have a lot to do with sleep deprivation.

Definitely. Obesity, car accident, there are lots of different things.

Can we extrapolate this automatically to adults?

Well, yes, but we do have similar problems; of course, we do suffer if we don't get enough sleep. But we can make it up a little bit better. And also again our brains are, unfortunately for better or worse, you know we are not gonna be doing a lot more growing when it comes to learning as adults in our sleep, but kids they do a lot of learning when they're asleep.

So that's a profound impact. We'll put it up on the screen, and let everybody just study it and go online to the recommended amount of sleep for a child of different ages out there.

And it is a lot for the teen years I mean, this is weird. It's very hard to teenagers to get 8.5-9.5 hours of sleep.

Right. But that can make all the difference. Again you're looking at 15-min margins, so imagine what's like to get 9.5.

Genius!

Right, exactly. But unfortunately, you know after 8th Grade, it really goes down.

You said three quick things about helping a child go to sleep. Darkness, of course, in the room. Slow it down. And then no extra caffein. But address "slow it down" for me, what does that mean?

One of the things that a lot of people think and admit, and this is true for young children as well, is you can't tire a child out and expect them to have a good quality of sleep. So make sure these late night practices are really at a minimum and you don't rock the house too much and get the computers and TV sets out of the rooms.

Out of the room.

Thank you. Annie.

I sleep 8 hours these days........ lucky enough.. unlike those who are preparing for the graduate examination...

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I sleep 8 hours these days........ lucky enough.. unlike those who are preparing for the graduate examination...

I get up later than 9:00 the days at home