Source Blogs #1 and #2

Brain Basics: Understanding Sleep. (2019, August 13). Retrieved fromhttps://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/patient-caregiver-education/understanding-sleep (Links to an external site.)

In this article, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), along with other official branches of research groups have coincided to create an effort to investigate how the act of sleeping functions through a larger scale than just the surface level, as well as the various scientific and effects sleep can have on a person when they are responsible with their schedule. At first, the article starts with the general information on sleep, with the basic information that you should already know, such as how it’s important for everyday function and efficiency It also starts to bring up questions that the viewer will understand when they move on to the next section. Then, the focus starts to lean on the biological aspect of sleep. It goes on ahead to talk about the specific functions of each body part when sleeping, and what it does to maintain this action. Then we get more of the stages of sleep itself, which works on the stages of sleep and the mechanisms itself. From this the authors then go into how much sleep a person should get in order to maintain their effectiveness and be able to go throughout their day smoothly. This article seems to be written on various amounts of information that I have already heard before, and the information seems to match for the most part. It also goes into information that is much more specific such as the usage of multiple body parts in their research. From this, we just get a very clear idea of how information is managed through. Using this source, I can back up my claims and use it as a very reliable source of information for specific scientific facts. With other sources, I can use it to get into the introductory information required to get the reader into the topic with more knowledge.   

 

Sleep Deprivation and Deficiency. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/sleep-deprivation-and-deficiency

This article goes more into the effects from a lack of sleep and how these can affect your daily life if you keep doing this. It obviously goes into the basic genetic effects of biology in sleep, but it goes through a different method of explaining it because it has a different audience overall. While the topics are the same, the article is much more easy on specific terms and wants the audience to know the beneficial information that they can use in their daily lives, such as tips for sleeping better and how much sleep they should get overall. Not only that, but it also goes more into the effects of sleep in a general term, by going into specific groups of people that may be affected, and general statistic facts that can greatly help an argument. Since it has multiple sections, it has a very large range of uses that it has in order to be used to back up an argument. Furthermore, it focuses more on a psychological basis rather than the biological basis of the previous research. Because of this, the sources can be used together to  combine multiple research efforts with both biology and psychology to provide an argument that has a strong foundation with bold claims. Both of these research methods are from organizations that work to benefit people without the need of having to advertise products or specific opinions, so it can be very good to consider a lot of the information provided to use in an argument or if you are to just simply improve your health with a better schedule for your days.