Gentile, Martin, Montalto 2 affect routine performances of tasks"(“Sleep Deprivation”). For most high school students, sleep Dertn dai'\4 y deprivation is a weekly/ssue : f py? The sleep many teens lack can easily affect their studies and, ierades in school. In an we academic setting, the ability to focus and maintain attention determine the success of acquiring new knowledge. As reported by NSA, “when we are sleep deprived, our focus, attention, and vigilance drift, making it more difficult to receive information” (Payne). Also, without a sufficient amount of sleep, “over-worked neurons can no longer function to coordinate information properly, and we lose our ability to access previously learned information,” yielding poor test results, even if a student did learn the material at some point (Payne). The fony ur yity do 494 4 students who sleep seven to nine hours each night likely have this issue (Gentile). While they do nearly receive the amount suggested by the NSF, mustering the neurons needed to coordinate information registered a long time ago will prove ¢xtremely difficult, if possible. If information leamed can got be retrieved, weak performance on an exam can dramatically decrease a student's overall grade. Perhaps with more sleep, the severely sleep deprived population, fifty four percent according to the survey, could learn more and test better (Gentile) Also due to the inadequate amounts of sleep obtained, many students lack the motivation and energy in the morning hours to remain alert or keep a positive attitude, When asked to {> » describe their usual moods during their morning classes, thifty seven of the one hundred (\) participants stated they feel “extremely tired” and thirty two reported feeling “irritated”/Only cleven of the students surveyed had a “fine” mood in the morning with practically all of those eleven obtaining between seven to nine hours of rest a night (Gentile). Those who slept more un displayed better moods than those who did not. A poll raef’by NSF supports this claim, stating