Sleep Deprivation and Neuron Deterioration

Mylene M. Borabo

It’s like you are candle burning up at both ends. Perhaps, are you staying up late for the loaded of works needed to be accomplished? Is new normal kicking your ass not to sleep? DLP’s, Work Plan, Budget of Work, taking the calls an text of the students? Oh! I guess you are almost at edge of sleep deprivation but can’t do anything about it because it is your work.

Sleep? In teachers vocabulary is missing. Not already in the list. It is as if the word sleep is already invisible word. A good night rest varies with each person, for adolescents and adults it should have 8 hours sleep per 34 hours. However, having insufficient amount of sleep becoming the new norms for us.

Based on the study for the Journal Neuroscience, the deterioration of brain cells in mice due to prolonged wakefulness may also occur in humans. Researchers of the Center of Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvanian found that sleeplessness causes irreversible damage to a particular type of brain cell called locus cerulean (LC) neurons. These particular neurons located in the brain stem are responsible for keeping us alert, affect our cognitive performance, and also play a role in determining one’s mood.

Sleep help us stay alive, controlling every bodily function we possess. Let us not abuse or bodies or lese will lose it’s ability to function well.

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The author is Teacher I at San Vicente Pilot School For Philippine Cratsmen