European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To your health Sec Osl still As elusive As a dream exposure to Bright lights could trip to Relief to Thot suffering from troubled Bleep. National geographic the nigh Fly rendezvous with sleep is Ong Olive most ancient Al human Ril urls Cyl. Despite decades of research and numerous theories Hoansler so inc Basic question of Why people sleep remains elusive As a dream. Whal controls the clocks drop in our brains thai sound 1 aps and reveille Hal conduct the daily orchestra of our body hymnis1 is there a real reason to sleep Why do some people sleep Loo much and others not enough after the common cold difficulty with sleeping is perhaps oui most prevalent health complaint writes Michael e l Ong m Ihu december National geographic an Asti malefic 100 million americans suffer from troubled step a 6/-year old Man dreams he s on i loot Alt hold and in Mcalily last pcs his Dresser a 77 year old uni Pislor lies irom his bed and crashes to the floor Mojo than 50 sleep disorders have been identified including insomnia head banging leg kicking sleepwalking Nyhl terrors sleep paralysis and narcolepsy sudden  slumber. To ease the torment at la isl 170 sleep clinics opera be in the United slates. Treatments include drugs sleep Stylo changes even surgery. The most frequent patrons o sleep clinics complain of trouble staying awake in the daytime. The major cause of their problem is Apnoea the repealed cessation of breathing usually associated with snoring thai robs them of needed Rosl How Long people Steep appears to be related to How Long they ii live research has shown. Between 7 and 7.9 hours a Day correlates Wilh the Best longevity. What is sleep until the Early 1950s, scientists who Houghl about sleep at All believed that the brain sort of tuned Down during sleep Long Wales. Then Nathaniel Keilman a physiologist Al the Universal of Chicago and the father of modern sleep research directed the work of graduate student Eugene Aserinsky. Who observed rapid Eye movement Remi during sleep. The discovery demonstrated forevermore. Long Wriles that the so called steeping brain is charged Vilh activity Keilman and William c. Do men. Ihen a medical student and now a Leader in sleep research found Hal the proverbial Good night s sleep actually consists of iwo sleeps Rem and non Rem. Which a Lemale in cycles thai repeal throughout the night Rem sleep is  by vivid bizarre dreams while non Rem tends to be less Active. But Why people dream is still a mystery persons who Are deprived of their share of both Rem and non Rem sleep and As a result Leel drowsy Are a menace Dement says an alack of uncontrollable sleepiness is As unpredictable As an  he explains and May be ust As devastating " Dement and other experts Leel i hat sleepiness May be a Specter behind the disasters at chernobyl Bhopal and three mile Island. The accidents occurred during the Early morning hours when the sleep prompting issued by the clock is most insistent. This clock experts disagree on whether there Are one or More operates on a Cycle of Aboul 25 hours and regulates the body s circadian or Staily. Rhythms. Until 1980, most scientists accepted the common notion Hal Onset of sleepiness and the amount people sleep Are determined primarily by activity while they re awake then Charles a. Czeisler an associate professor of Medicine Al Harvard medical school overturned this Assumption by showing Hal the body clock which prompts a temperature decline Al night determines when and How Long people sleep. One of the most significant findings of sleep research this explains the Difili bullies experienced by those who Loil through the  Long writes. When body clock and work schedule clash people can Dull unaware in and out of Micro sleeps according to research in Sweden. Such assaults on body rhythms Al lick an is Limatok 60 million Workoff on rotating shifts worldwide. Help is on the Way. Long Rilos. In a recently announced discovery Harvard s Czeisler demonstrated Hal by using Bright lights he can shift a person s circadian rhythms dramatically reselling the body clock to whatever time he chooses. Harvard scientists Pound Hal the body clock re made up of groups of neurons near the optic nerves. In an Experiment Czeisler cured National geographic Wylei Long of an acute Case of Jel lag following a Tokyo to Boston flight. Three Days of Light treatments shifted Long s rhythms 10.5 hours an adjustment Hal normally lakes  curing Jet lags Light treatments potentially could bring Relief to shill workers and to the elderly who often have Oil faculty sleeping. Early training for Down s kids under study by Malcolm Ritter associated press fifteen month old Tyrone is slowly being Bent Forward by the Gontje hands of Jane Weinberger catch the Looi Tyrone catch the Lionor Tyrone Olch it catch h. " she urges. Finally he puts his arms out Asil to Slop a tall Good  she praises Weinberger a physical therapist Al the Kennedy child slurry Center in new Vork cily. Is leaching Tyi Onea reaction most Chad run learn naturally but Tyrone has Down s syndrome researches across the drilled Stales Are study my How 10 it am children Solh Down s syndrome at Early Ages in such Alfe Cwi  is thinking learning and speak my the Woik is Spurrer by the conviction inf such Early  can  Canso the Defils imposed by fio inborn a Jencic condition Hal appears every 800 Burns solar inures uni Iii Ruri  Ali Clauf 1h.il conviction is True because the Field is so new. But available studies Are encouraging. Nobody expects to erase the mental retardation bul we have every reason to suspect we can help Wilh some of their problems said Lynn Nadel. Professor in cognitive science Al the University of Arizona in Tucson. Because it the syndrome is anatomical does i mean re s the end of the Road. We can look Al the environmental ways of attacking  George Smith of the William Beaumont army medical Center in Elpaso Texas declared Al a recent research Memling sponsored by the National Down s syndrome society. Inti Verlion techniques Are tailored to Oach child s needs which is one reason their a Nettls Are hard to assess said Penny Hauser cram senior research Assoc Iii m the Early intervention collaborative study Al the us verily of Massachusetts medical school in Wor Cosier. Our evaluation has Boon rally Cion mod to in measures Hausa pm  d  a la some a Ion Hal the Jala ii plainly silo Liuio Are  Etter is on in scores. Researchers now need to determine How Long such improvements last. And look for Gams in social skills and self help functions such As eating and dressing she said Standard intervention techniques include having children play at Home with toys Hal have push buttons to Sli ulale lagging motor skills to encourage reaching. Parents might put toys just Oul of an infant s reach ii a child is learning to talk. Parents might wait until the child tries to name an object before fetching it. Many techniques focus on  children they can affect their environment Hauser cram said. Some Loys Lor example reveal a Small Ligure when Iho child pushes a Bullon around the Iriti of in months to 2 years children May join group divides. That Leach such skills As playing Wilh pc s and lol loping school routines one area of m Lores i in Ihu now research is learning language child a Wmk Down 5 syndrome show a marked delay m Ijnar Huayi Faming and never Leach  i  ill fun Tod Page 16 for the stars and stripes tuesday. December 29. 1987